HOW I KILLED THE TIGER. Jl 



History," full-grown buffaloes and gaur are 

 usually a match for the tiger, but young or 

 feeble individuals not infrequently fall victims to 

 its attack ; and instances are recorded of young 

 elephants being killed and eaten. Adult bull 

 gaur are, however, occasionally killed by tigers ; 

 the latter, if the reports of native herdsmen are 

 to be credited, inducing the bulls to charge time 

 after time, when they are wounded as they pass 

 by a blow from the tiger's paw. Old wild boars, 

 it is said, not infrequently succeed in wounding 

 and beating off a tiger ; and the herds of 

 buffaloes defend themselves by forming in a half 

 circle, with the bulls facing the foe. Moreover, 

 even when a calf or a weak or sickly adult 

 individual has been carried off, the old buffaloes 

 are reported to combine and follow the tiger, and 

 rescue the victim from its clutches. Much more 

 rarely tigers will kill and eat the Indian bear. 



