CHAPTER VI 







Resume the attack A bait taken The tigress charges A difficult shot 

 Hit Wounded mortally, yet attacks a beater I go to the rescue 

 A fortunate escape Tigers not incapable of climbing trees The 

 wounded man recovers Wounds from tiger's teeth and claws The 

 character of tigers described Man-eaters Causes that produce them 

 Fallacies regarding man-eaters News of another tiger Posted on 

 foot Killed with a single bullet Tenacity of life fortunately rare 

 A dangerous sport A tigress with cubs One bagged An unexpected 

 attack Fire both barrels into her face The tigress gets home I am 

 knocked over A period of unconsciousness Badly clawed and bitten 

 Saved by Bapu's pluck Bandaging the wound Carried into camp 

 Treatment and eventual recovery The dangers of a light rifle 

 Heavy casualty list in Khandesh Another instance of light rifle 

 inefficiency Monkeys give the alarm Sudden appearance of the 

 tiger An unfortunate slip Reserving my fire A terrified dog-boy 

 Tiger sits up dog-fashion A perilous situation The tiger fortu- 

 nately retires Send for heavy rifle Tracking up the tiger Success 

 at last A fine trophy. 



THE next day, accompanied by Major M , I.M.S., 



Surgeon to H.E. the then Governor of Bombay, who 

 had come out to me for a few days' shooting, I returned 

 to the jungle, where we found fresh tracks of the tigress 

 in the same covert. She had, during the night, killed one 

 of the buffaloes I had tied up as bait. 



As my friend had never shot a tiger, I placed him in 

 the best position, and taking up a post some distance 

 behind him, told the men to beat the jungle up towards us. 



At the first sound of the beaters the tigress showed 

 herself, and growling savagely the while, charged past 



M 's tree. It was a difficult mark she offered, for 



besides the pace she was going, some clumps of bamboos 

 intervened, but he hit her with his first barrel, the bullet 

 striking her about the middle of the ribs, passing, as we 

 found later, diagonally through the opposite shoulder. 



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