276 THE HIGHLANDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. 



services. There are few well-known resorts of tigers 

 where some story of the sort has not been handed 

 down among the people. The first essential towards 

 getting sport is to conciliate the willing co-operation 

 of the people, and make it plain to them that your 

 arrangements for supplies are such as to throw no 

 unbearable burden on a poor country, and that your 

 method of hunting is not one to lead to the constant 

 risk of life. Such, however, is the want of sympathy 

 often engendered in the naturally generous English- 

 man by the fact of his becoming a member of the 

 ruling caste in India, that sportsmen will sometimes 

 be heard on their return from an unsuccessful expe- 

 dition in which they had harried a quiet population 

 who did not want their tigers killed at all on their 

 terms, cursing and swearing at them, and perhaps even 

 expressing little regret that a few of them had been 

 sacrificed to their bungling ardour. On the other hand, 

 a properly organised expedition, where the sportsman 

 provides his own supplies and his means of hunting 

 the tigers, is certain to meet with every co-operation 

 from the people. They will even crowd in to help 

 in driving the jungles, when they know they are to 

 work for a good sportsman and shot who will not 

 unnecessarily risk their lives. 



AVith luck and first-rate arransfements a few tio^ers 

 may be got in the cold weather. A good many 

 persons will remember a hunt in the month of 

 January, 1861, when we secured a royal tiger for the 

 Governor- General of India, on his first visit to the 

 centre of his dominions, within a mile or two of the 

 cantonment of Jubbulpiir. I mounted sentry over 

 that beast for nearly a week, girding him in a little 



