TIGER-SHOOTING. Ift7 



jungle fare obtained by our guns. If these two 

 lists will be compared, it will be seen how much 

 more comfortably three people could live on the 

 latter than two on the former. 



The cost of the maintenance of the elephant 

 alone, and the pay of its three attendants, was no 

 trifling item, and if in addition to this the railway 

 fare for our three selves, four horses, and servants 

 be taken into consideration, it will be seen how 

 experience and management told in making the 

 much larger outfit only exceed the lesser by so 

 small a sum. Of course the remainder of the ex- 

 penses in each trip was made up by payments to 

 beaters, rewards for information of game, supplies,. 

 &c. 



The modus operandi pursued was as follows : 

 Our shikari was sent out over the ground we pro- 

 posed traversing during the trip, some six weeks 

 previous to our start. It was then his business 

 to make all inquiries respecting the localities in 

 which tigers were to be found, their habits, and 

 the particular spots they were in the habit of 

 frequenting, and of their characters ; for, strange 

 as it may seem, nearly every tiger has a certain 

 character for ferocity, wiliness, or the reverse of 

 being a man-eater, cattle-killer, or game-killer 

 which are well known to the jungle folk. 



At the end of the six weeks the shikari would 



