158 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



nor that I had hit another tiger. Before retiring 

 to rest I had the tiger carefully flayed. It was a 

 large one, measuring nine feet eight inches, and very 

 bulky. My boy had had bamboo pegs prepared, 

 so by 11 P.M. we had the skin well stretched and 

 warm wooden ashes rubbed into the inner surface ; 

 and by midnight I was fast asleep, dreaming of 

 various hunts and narrow escapes, when I was 

 rudely startled with the cry of, " Coffee, sar." I 

 was soon up, and after a bath I dressed quickly, and 

 collecting about a dozen men, hurried oft* to fetch 

 the tigress. Although it was our day of rest, I took 

 my shot gun with me. The jungle fowl were pretty 

 abundant, but most difficult to put up, but a village 

 dog assisted me greatly, but woe betide the bird if 

 he got at it before one of us could pick it up, for 

 the brute would devour it in a moment. However, I 

 got seven jungle fowl and one " Yit " before reaching 

 the dead tigress, which we found untouched, and 

 with her returned in triumph. 1 did nothing more 

 that day than superintend the pegging-out of the 

 skin and the preparation of the two skulls. The last 

 is a very simple matter. I put the heads into a 

 large earthenware pot, and boil them until the flesh 

 peels off; they are then sweet and clean and as 

 white as driven snow. Then I tie them round with 

 twine, sew them up in bags, when they are ready 

 to be sent home to be set up. 



During the day I had a long confab with Shoay- 

 Boh, and it was decided that he and I should start 

 for some salt-licks, in a north-easterly direction, 

 two or three hours before daybreak, so as to get 

 there before sunrise. He said that there were 



