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for comfort. Rowties too should be taken for the 

 use of the servants, but it is unnecessary in dry 

 weather to take tents for the horses, since shelters, 

 efficient except in rain, can be made of bamboo, 

 with boughs or grass for roofing and sides, to 

 protect the animals from dew and wind. 



It is essential to arrange for the purchase of some 

 cattle or buffaloes as baits for tigers, and this is no 

 longer so easy a matter in Mysore as it appears 

 to have been at least, in the vicinity of Mr. 

 Sanderson's house at Morlay when he wrote his 

 book, over twenty years ago. I could seldom 

 procure baits for less than some five or six rupees 

 each in Mysore, and often very much more was 

 demanded for them. 



A good plan, if there be plenty of time, is to find 

 out when auction sales of stray, unclaimed cattle 

 are to be held in the different taluqs, and to instruct 

 someone to buy the required number, but this is 

 more practicable for a man resident in the district 

 than for a shooting party consisting of strangers. 

 Anyway, at least six or eight cattle or buffaloes 

 must be provided, and when any one of them is 

 killed, another should at once be purchased in its 

 place. 



Tying up the baits must be done regularly and 

 systematically by the shikarries, assisted, of course, 

 by the requisite number of coolies engaged for the 

 purpose. This will necessarily vary with the 

 number of animals, and the distances apart at 

 which they are to be tied. Great judgment must 

 be exercised in tying up, for the objects in view 



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