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CHAPTER XXII. 



TIGER-SHOOTING IN SOUTHERN INDIA — {continued). 



A griffin's exploit— a netted tigress — OUR NARROW ESCAPE — A SMALL BOY's 

 ADVENTURE WITH A TIGER — A VISITOR WELCOME AT ANY HOUR — NEWS FROM 

 POONJOOR — A TIGRESS RESISTS BOMMAY GOUDA'S RESEARCHES — I ASSIST IN PUR- 

 SUING INVESTIGATIONS — THE CAUSE OF HER CONTUMACY — SHOOT HER ON FOOT — A 

 COURAGEOUS CUB— BOMMAY GOUDA's WORTHLESS SON — A TIMID TIGRESS — WOUND 

 HER — A MARKER TREE'd — LOOK FOR THE TIGRESS ON FOOT — A CLOSE INTERVIEW — 

 WE RETIRE GRACEFULLY — A DEAD TIGER COMES TO LIFE AND ESCAPES — A NIGHT- 

 WATCH — KILL THE TIGRESS — A CAUTIOUS TIGRESS — MOONLIGHT SCENE — SHOOT THE 

 WOULD-BE DESTROYER — JACKALS AT A CARCASS — THE TIGER's ARRIVAL— A WARM 

 RECEPTION — SEARCH FOR THE WOUNDED TIGER ON FOOT BY MOONLIGHT — RECOVER 

 HIM. 



AMONGST many incidents connected with tiger- shooting which I 

 remember, one happened to a friend and myself in the days oi 

 our griflfinage, when we had a very narrow escape from a wounded tigress. 

 This tigress had been netted in the method abeady described, and we had 

 fired at her as she bounded across tlie line cleared througli the enclosure ; 

 and as after this neither fireworks nor showers of sticks and stones moved 

 her, we determined to go inside and look her up. We had no elephants, 

 so went in on foot. We, however, designed some method in our madness, 

 and arranged to have a net carried on upriglits by men with us, and a good 

 display of spear-points tln-ougli it, whilst the jungle was to be cleared for 

 our advance by long-handled choppers used under and through tlie net. If 

 the tigress charged, the spears were to do what they could towards keeping 

 her off, whilst we were to receive her with our ritles, and doubted not our 

 ability to extinguish her ! 



The service of going inside was, however, quite at a discount amongst 

 the men ; they were now giving way and asking each other reproachingly 

 " why they didn't go in," wliilsL only three headmen expressed themselves 



