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they, and these creatures must be hungry in- 

 deed to molest him. 



I am indebted to a well-known sportsman for 

 a remarkable illustration of the dread in which 

 the wild boar is held by even the fiercest 

 animals in the best of condition. There are 

 people who disbelieve the accounts of how the 

 pig will drink unconcernedly at a pool with 

 tigers standing by, but the following ex- 

 perience leaves no shadow of doubt of its 

 superiority in courage to, at any rate, a 

 panther : 



My informant was shooting in the Kinwet 

 Reserve, Berars (N.W. of the Nizam's 

 Dominions), in the month of May, 1906. On 

 this particular occasion he was seated in a 

 machan in a solitary tree overlooking the 

 Doderi Nullah, a boulder-strewn watercourse. 

 A buffalo calf had been tied up as bait for 

 the notorious Gari tiger, an immense light- 

 coloured and very cunning old tiger that had 

 been known for more than ten years to the 

 officers of Gordon's Horse, but had never got 

 caught in a beat. Even his pug-marks were 

 well known, being distinguishable not alone 

 by their great size, but also by the peculiarity 

 of the near fore-paw being turned slightly 

 inwards. 



This gentleman has no high opinion of the 

 practice of shooting tigers at night from a 



