Jungle By- Ways in India 



fixed to the nearest tree. If the kill is in the open 

 and no convenient site for the sportsman to sit 

 up is available, the kill will have to be removed, 

 and this must be done by means of ropes attached 

 to the carcase, and the men fixing and removing 

 ropes should have their feet covered with the 

 skin of an animal, preferably the inner surface 

 of the skin of a newly killed animal. 



I shot my first tiger over a kill of this nature. 

 It was down in Berar, where I had proceeded 

 from Simla on tour one July. Two of us had 

 been out in the forest all the morning and got 

 back to breakfast tired and sopping wet about 

 midday. Half-way through breakfast khubbar 

 was brought in that a tiger had killed a buffalo 

 the night before. I could not resist the tempta- 

 tion, though the other man resolutely refused to 

 go on the wild-goose chase, as he called it. And 

 in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred he would 

 have been right. The kill was six miles away, and 

 I was wet through long before I got there. Some 

 three hours did I sit in that machan in the pelting 

 rain, and at last, just as I had given up all hope, the 

 tiger suddenly appeared, walking out of the jungle 

 and round the dead buffalo with his tail in the air 

 like a great cat. He picked up the buffalo, which 

 had not been pegged down a it should have been, 

 in his jaws and before I could do anything carried 

 it into some bushes where he and it were hidden, 

 all save a portion of his head. I spent half an 



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