TIGER SLAYER BY ORDER 



it should be remembered that both tigers and panthers 

 will often refuse to kill a tied -up bullock, especially in 

 jungles where game such as deer or hog are anything like 

 plentiful ; but these are idiosyncrasies which have to be 

 ignored. 



The presence of a tiger having been ascertained by 

 its fresh footprints, etc., some young buffaloes should be 

 procured and tied up early in the afternoon at the most 

 likely places, such as meeting of paths or ravines, and near 

 pools of water if there happen to be any. 



Towards eight or nine o'clock, when the sun is powerful, 

 the baits should be examined, and if one has been killed, 

 the sportsman with one or two good trackers, should quietly 

 approach the spot and endeavour to find out where the 

 tiger's or leopard's pugs or tracks lead to. Should they 

 lead into a thick covert or rocks where the animal is supposed 

 to have lain up, the ground for some distance round should 

 be carefully examined, and, if no footprints are found 

 leading out, men must be silently posted on trees, at twenty 

 or thirty paces' interval, as stops to prevent the game 

 from slipping away unobserved up one of the smaller side 

 ravines or paths leading to the covert. This is a most 

 necessary precaution, and the carrying out of it should 

 therefore be personally supervised by the sportsman as 

 on the way these stops are placed may depend the success 

 or failure of the beat, for tigers, if not disturbed, will remain 

 near their kill for two or three days, sometimes even longer 

 (it all depends on the size of the animal killed), hence if 

 well ringed round will probably be bagged. A gorged 

 tiger is easy to beat out as he is lazy and slow in his move- 

 ments. 



The guns must now be placed so as to command any 

 pass or passes leading to the cover for which the tiger is 

 likely to make when started, and the beaters will then 

 commence to beat the jungle at some distance from the 

 spot where they know or believe the tiger to be lying up, 

 for if roused suddenly it may, if not too gorged with meat, 

 rush too quickly past the guns to allow of a sure shot. 



In driving a ravine, it should be remembered that a 

 tiger will, almost invariably, come along the bank in 

 preference to down the bed. If during the drive any 

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