68 TIGERS. 



sufficiently to be able to set them without 

 instruction. 



Captain Williamson says that the Shecarries 

 remain in trees, or somewhere near, so as to 

 enable them to see the bow and string, where 

 they can also apprize people going that way, of 

 their danger. This is not often, if ever, the case. 

 The tigers are generally shot with poisoned 

 arrows during the night, and in the midst of 

 some thick cover, or in the dry beds of small 

 rivers. They lay their bows and arrows before 

 sun set, and then go to some village where they 

 sleep the night; early the next morning, they 

 visit the spot to examine their bows, and if an 

 arrow has been discharged, they are certain that 

 some animal, most probably a tiger, has been 

 wounded, and consequently is dead. 



They then trace him by the blood, or, if they 

 cannot follow it, they look about in all the thick 

 covers near; being well acquainted with their 

 haunts, they know the direction he will most pro- 

 bably take, and seldom fail of finding him in a 

 few hours. Some Shecarries take a dog with 

 them, which, being trained, hunts them out in a 

 few minutes. They do not take the dog with 



