72 TIGERS. 



It is rather a strange circumstance, that the 

 same poisonous substance which they fix to their 

 arrows, is used by the native distillers to lute their 

 stills. I had a young tree of the Boglear trans- 

 planted into my garden, but I quitted that part of 

 the country before the tree had attained a suffi- 

 cient size to try any experiments with. 



Whenever a bullock is killed by a tiger, and 

 the people of the village can find the dead carcass, 

 they erect a michaun in a tree, or on poles, or 

 dig a pit in the ground near it ; and if there are 

 no people in the village bold enough to remain in 

 it, to shoot at the tiger when he returns to feed at 

 night, they send for some from the next village, or 

 employ Shecarries ; neither of which have they 

 occasion often to do, there being scarcely a village 

 in RamgJiur without people who are accustomed 

 to shoot tigers in this way. 



Whether Shecarries or villagers undertake the 

 business, they conduct it in the same manner. 

 Villagers seldom remain alone, a companion gene- 

 rally accompanies the marksman, and sometimes 

 they are both marksmen. Shecarries, from being 

 more accustomed to it, are not afraid, and often 

 sit in michauns alone, with hopes of receiving the 



