<6o Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



the brute out of pain. Whilst I was standing over 

 my prize, T found that it was a very large tigress. I 

 heard voices some way off, so crossed the river, seized 

 the girls' clothes, ran up the hill, and found them as I 

 anticipated perched upon so many branches. Laughing 

 at them as they attempted to screen their nakedness 

 from me, I told them not to be afraid as the tiger 

 was dead, but as a lot of villagers were not far off 

 they had better don their dresses. So not wishing 

 to add to their confusion, I turned my back on 

 them and walked off, and in a few minutes my 

 -boy and about a dozen men appeared, but from a 

 direction quite different from that by which the 

 girls had come, as the latter belonged to another 

 village. 



My boy said they had heard the shots and thought 

 I was firing at a mark for practice and to pass away 

 the time ; but I took them up to the tigress and told 

 what had occurred. Some of the men examined 

 the carcase and exclaimed, '* Why, it is one of 

 the dreaded man-eaters. Look here, she has lost 

 two toes off a hind foot. That was done by a man 

 she seized about six weeks ago." " But where can 

 the other be, for they are never far apart ? " " Why," 

 said I, " I think there must have been another, for I 

 -don't think this is the one I fired at first, but I fear 

 I must have missed him." " Be ready then, Tuckin" 

 (Sir), said one of the men, " now that the female is 

 dead he will attack us to a certainty." So cocking 

 my rifle, and bidding my boy to remain close behind 

 me with the gun, I went towards where I thought 

 the first tiger should be. The men all separated and 

 went into the trees in a minute. The girls had 



