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from the iron rod, which flies up, allowing the 

 doors to fall down through grooves so strongly 

 made, that he cannot force them open, so that he 

 is caught. 



The traps are sometimes made with only one 

 door, and an open grating at the other end. An- 

 other kind is made by driving stakes into the 

 ground and fastening bamboos to the top of them, 

 with doors similar to those already described, and 

 which are let fall much in the same way ; they 

 are made considerably larger, and are immove- 

 able; covered all over with green bushes, and so 

 well hidden, as not to be easily discovered from 

 the natural cover. Whenever tigers are caught 

 in these traps, they are driven into others prepared 

 to receive them, in which they are carried off. 



The following description of a tiger killed by 

 poisoned arrows, is taken from Captain William- 

 son's book of Oriental Field Sports. " The con- 

 " struction of the apparatus for shooting tigers 

 " with arrows, either poisoned or not, is extreme- 

 " ly simple. There are various modes ; but 

 " that in general use is as follows : The bow is 

 " fixed at the middle by two stakes, distant enough 

 " to allow the arrow to pass freely without touch- 



