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CHAPTER X. 



TIGER-SHOOTING.* 



Tiger-shooting Expenses of Camp Equipage Preliminary Ar- 

 rangements ' Hailas ' Ringing the Tiger The Beat Follow- 

 ing up wounded Tigers Precautions to be Taken My first Tiger 

 Death of a Villager Successful Right and Left Bag thelCubs 

 Tigers' Whiskers Curious Anatomical, Structure An Impu- 

 dent Kite The Khandla Tiger The Artful Dodger Cannibalism 

 of Tigers Frogs as a Diet Tigers' fondness of Bathing Attack- 

 ed by Red Ants A Shot in the Water Tigris Redivivus ! 



No narrative of Indian sport can be considered 

 complete without some account of that most 

 thrilling and exciting ' sport of tiger-shooting, 

 but I must warn my readers that in these pages 

 they will find no account of numbers of tigers 

 slain, or hairbreadth escapes. I can only en- 

 deavour i a round unvarnished tale to deliver/ and 

 relate such incidents as came within the limits of 

 my own personal experience ; and any others 

 that I may relate I can vouch for the truth of. 



* Felis tigris. 



