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CHAPTER XL 



TIGEK-SHOOTING (CONTINUED.) 



First Encounter on Foot with a Tiger Apparent Failure of Beat 

 Sudden Appearance of the Tigress Too Close to be Pleasant 

 What shall I do ? Close Quarters In quest of Bears A Blank 

 Unexpected Meeting with a Tigress Wound Her Follow 

 Up She charges Her Death Extraordinary vitality Tiger's 

 powers of Concealment The Tandla Tiger An awkward Pre- 

 dicament He is very Sick Precautions to be taken in Approach- 

 ing dead Tigers The Daba Tiger * Independent Firing ' The 

 Death-spring Impotent rage of a wounded Tiger. 



CERTAINLY the first time one meets a tiger close, 

 and on foot, is I think calculated to shake even the 

 stoutest nerves. I can at least answer for my- 

 self, and am not ashamed to own that the first 

 time I met a tiger close, I was in what is com- 

 monly termed a blue funk ! It happened thus : 



I was out in the Berar jungles with my friends 

 Hebbert and Davidson. We had bagged one tiger 

 and a cub, and some days after camped at a place 

 called Jarang-Jarur, where we heard there were 



