BULLET AND SHOT 



Tigers are great travellers, and each one wanders 

 over a very large tract of country, not killing cattle 

 often near to any one village, but taking one here 

 and one there, frequently in places at long distances 

 apart. 



How many animals a tiger accounts for in the 

 course of a single year, I cannot say ; but I should 

 imagine that, including deer and pig (and an 

 occasional cow or goat, if he be partially a cattle- 

 killer), the number would not fall short of one 

 hundred. 



In the big forest tracts and hill ranges, are 

 many tigers which confine themselves almost 

 entirely to killing game ; but, beyond the sight of 

 their big pugs made after rain in the soft ground, 

 the sportsman has no evidence of their existence, 

 and no chance of bagging them unless he should, 

 by good luck which has happened to a few men 

 within my own knowledge chance by accident 

 upon one of them when looking for meaner game, 

 and slay him on the spot. 



On the hills, where open, grass expanses alter- 

 nate with cover, and where animals are far more 

 visible than they are in the jungles, a tiger can 

 occasionally be stalked and shot when he is him- 

 self hunting on his own account. When, however, 

 the jungles have dried up after the monsoon, the 

 ground has been thickly strewn with fallen leaves, 

 and walking noiselessly is a matter of great 

 difficulty, if not of impossibility, the tiger finds 

 game very hard to stalk ; and during this season 

 I believe that some tigers, which usually live almost 



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