70 TIGERS. 



the arrow generally enters behind the shoulders. 

 According to the account given to me by the 

 Shecarries, they seldom live half an hour after 

 receiving the wound. 



The Captain observes that this method of shoot- 

 ing arrows is exclusively followed by Pahariahs, 

 or hill people. In this, he has been misinformed ; 

 I believe the only people who practise it, are a 

 race of men, inhabitants of the district ofDinage- 

 pwe, east of the river Ganges, who travel all 

 over Bengal, wherever tigers are to be met with, 

 for the sole purpose of killing them, in order to 

 obtain the reward given by government, of ten 

 rupees for every tiger. Something more they 

 receive as presents from the inhabitants, and gain 

 a little by the sale of their teeth and claws, which 

 are worn by the natives as charms. 



I believe it frequently happens that they are 

 paid twice by government for killing the same 

 animal, by producing the head of a tiger to a 

 collector of one district, and the skin to the col- 

 lector of another. They travel about killing 

 tigers nearly all the hot and cold seasons ; and, if 

 they are successful, return to their families, with 

 a sufficiency to .maintain them for a year or two : 



