TIGERS. 61 



ON THEIR METHOD OF KILLING THEIR PREY, 

 AND MY OBSERVATIONS THEREON. AN IN- 

 STANCE OF THEIR GREAT STRENGTH AND FERO- 

 CITY. AN ACCOUNT OF A VIOLENT HAIL-STORM. 



THE FLIGHT OF A DEER TO A REGIMENT OF 



SOLDIERS FOR PROTECTION. AN ACCOUNT OF 



A GENTLEMAN'S HAVING KILLED 360 TIGERS. 



TIGERS are caught in nets, as I have already de- 

 scribed. They are likewise caught in traps, but 

 rarely, being extremely wary. Shecarries kill 

 them with poisoned arrows : they also shoot them 

 from platforms and pits. The villagers do the 

 same ; and they are killed by opulent natives from 

 the backs of elephants. 



One kind of trap for catching them is made of 

 wood, and not unlike a common rat trap, twelve 

 or fourteen feet in length, and about five in 

 breadth, with both ends open, and two doors, one 

 at each end ; which are elevated by levers on the 

 top, and kept suspended by an iron rod passing 

 over the end of them, which rod communicates by 

 a tongue with a board on the inside at the bottom 

 of the box. A kid or goat is fastened in the 

 middle of the box, and when the tiger seizes it, 

 and steps on the board, he disengages the tongue 



