2 Intid&tt>t$ \of Foreign Field Sport. 



tq\ hunting on foot,, posting guns and beating up to 

 them is the only alternative. 



There are men, who can boast of having killed, it 

 is asserted, five hundred tigers mostly off machans. 

 But it is an expensive mode of warfare against the 

 felines, for buffaloes have to be purchased and tied up, 

 and an army of beaters is required to drive the game 

 towards the guns, but having tried it pretty often, I 

 have come to the conclusion that it is unsatisfactory 

 and scarcely worth the cost. Very often when a 

 man is posted on a tree, a tiger passes him within 

 easy distance, yet so uncomfortable is his position 

 that he cannot turn round to get the shot. But tastes 

 differ. I do not care to pot a tiger from a coign of 

 vantage some twenty feet high, and although I have 

 done so several times, yet I always felt less pleasure 

 in thus slaying the foe than when I have followed it 

 up either on foot, or beat for it with elephants. 



I will here briefly relate incidents of the various 

 modes of slaying tigers, in which I have had a share. 



In my boyhood, at sixteen, I entered the service, 

 and at nineteen I commanded a detachment at 

 Condapilly. In those happy days there were no rail- 

 ways, telegraphs were unknown and the posts came 

 only every other day. I had a good " writer " and a 

 good native commissioned officer Peer Bukh. 

 Muster over, I used to sign the returns for the 

 month, frank the necessary official envelopes, direct 

 the subadar to have three parades a week, and then 

 disappear for a fortnight or more to hunt and shoot 

 the neighbouring jungles which swarmed with game. 

 I had fine sport but I need not enumerate it here. 



At Condapilly itself, leopards were numerous, and 



