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naturally enough, the tiger will not stay in a 

 place where he cannot obtain food. 



That wild dogs will, however, attack a tiger 

 not to kill him, but to drive him away from his 

 prey I do believe ; and the following extract 

 from a letter which appeared in the South of India 

 Observer of the 25th of March, 1869, corroborates 

 this. It was sent me by my old friend, the late 

 General McMaster, to whom I have before alluded. 

 He was at Ootacamund at the time, and had the 

 facts of the case related to him by an eye-witness 

 of the scene. The letter is signed 'A Deer-stalker/ 

 but I regret that I am unable to identify the 

 writer. He was, however, well known to General 

 McMaster, and was not one likely to relate any- 

 thing the truth of which he had doubts about. 

 He says : 



' 1 venture to write on a subject that has 

 puzzled me for many a year, viz., the statement 

 so often made by native shikaris that wild dogs 

 will attack and kill a tiger. I never could believe 

 that they would even attack him, and was under 

 the impression that, by driving the deer from 

 their accustomed haunts, they drove away the 

 tiger also. However, I have recently heard from 

 a friend a most interesting account of a scene 

 that he witnessed between a pack of wild dogs 



