28 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



immediate roar answered this salute, so we knew the 

 sentry was still on guard, but as such a slight thing 

 as a stick seemed to disturb her, I concluded to do 

 what I should have thought of long before. I 

 divested myself of my unmentionables, stuck a forked 

 branch into them, hung my coat on that, stuffed both 

 as full as I could of leaves, and thus made a guy which 

 as much resembled the human figure divine as a scare- 

 crow does a man. Bidding the shikarie take off his 

 turban, I tore it into strips, then sent him as far 

 out on to a lateral branch as was safe, and taking up 

 a position to command the spot where the dummy 

 would touch the ground, I, with rifle on full cock, 

 waited events. " Chordoa," (let it go), I said. The man 

 let it down and as it reached the ground the tigress 

 sprang upon it and tore my habiliments to bits, but 

 in so doing exposed the whole of her body. I fired 

 steadily, and rolled her over with a ball through the 

 neck and the other through her shoulder ; she died 

 without a groan. Calling out to the coolies to descend 

 and re-erect the ladder which they did after a little 

 delay, for the brute of a cub was not yet dead, and they 

 were afraid to touch terra firma I eventually came 

 down, and ultimately killed the youngster. The shikarie 

 then got admonished for parting with the cartridge-bag 

 in such a way as he was likely to remember. On ex- 

 amining my garments, the trousers were found to be 

 torn to pieces, the coat a mere shred. So there I was, 

 more undressed than a Scot in full parade costume, 

 and with a good four-mile walk through thorny 

 jungles before me ere I reached my tent. En route 

 we came across two bears, and these charged viciously, 

 a very unusual occurrence with these brutes when 



