TIGER SHOOTING IN S. INDIA 



necessity of following him up on foot as the result. 

 It is highly advisable, whether the sportsman be 

 posted up a tree, on a rock, or on the ground, for 

 him to make sure that his first shot is a steady and 

 good one, for in such case, if an hour or more be 

 allowed to elapse before any attempt to follow up 

 be made, the tiger is generally found dead. 



In following up a wounded animal on foot, or 

 even in looking for one which has gone on with 

 a wound which the sportsman who has fired the 

 shot believes to be a mortal one, the greatest possible 

 caution is necessary. The first thing is to give the 

 animal an hour or two in which to die. It may 

 be that- luncheon and a pipe (or a cheroot) can 

 conveniently fill up the time during this interval, 

 or possibly the tiger has been wounded too late 

 in the day to admit of giving him this time with 

 any chance of recovering him that evening. In 

 the latter case it is preferable to leave him for 

 the night, and to follow him up on the next day. 

 Even then he may be found full of ability both 

 to travel and to fight on the morrow, and the 

 wound, which the firer believed was a mortal one, 

 may prove after all to be very badly placed. 



The next thing is, when the following-up process 

 is begun, for a number of men to advance in a 

 compact body (the guns of course being in front), 

 and at this stage of the hunt, a few dogs, not 

 plucky enough to seize, or to go in close, but 

 sufficiently so to go ahead and to bark when they 

 view the tiger, are invaluable. 



Men may be sent up trees met with en route 



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