INCIDENTS OF 

 FOREIGN SPORT AND TRAVEL 



CHAPTER I. 



TIGER SHOOTING. 



TIGER shooting in India is carried out in various ways. 



Off Machans (raised platforms). 



Out of Marts (circular pits dug in the ground). 



The former can be used either for day or night 

 shooting, the latter for night work alone. 



On Foot. Principally in Central, and parts of 

 Southern, India. 



Off Elephants. In Bengal, Assam, Burma and 

 other parts of India where grassy plains abound. 



Tigers are also killed, during inundations, out of 

 boats and also by being surrounded by nets and then 

 speared but these two sports cannot be separated 

 from such shooting or spearing as would represent 

 general shooting for, for one tiger so killed, a dozen 

 other animals will be accounted for. 



I personally detest night shooting in any form, 

 and care very little for shooting even by day off 

 machans, but very often when no elephants are 

 procurable and the nature of the country prohibitive 



