TIGER SHOOTING IN S. INDIA 



sportsman to take up his post in it and watch for 

 the marauder's return. If the kill be in an extensive 

 tract of forest, too large to beat, the chance should 

 always be tried, though the sportsman must be quite 

 prepared for numerous disappointments. 



There can be no doubt, in my opinion, that the 

 tiger usually winds the sportsman, and so fears to 

 approach his kill. 



Exercise all the care and judgment possible, and, 

 even if you can tell to a certainty from which 

 direction the tiger will approach, make the mechan 

 so that if he thus advances he cannot possibly get 

 your wind, yet you will be "done" time after time. 



The fact is that guns are so numerous in native 

 villages, and the reward for killing a tiger so tempt- 

 ing to a native, that most of the animals have 

 already learnt the danger of returning to their 

 kills without the exercise of great cunning and 

 circumspection. 



My own impression is that a tiger who has pre- 

 viously been frightened when approaching his kill 

 either by detecting the scent of man or by being 

 fired at and missed by a native shikarrie exercises 

 exceeding caution in all future returns to feed upon 

 cattle which he may have slaughtered, and I am 

 forced to believe that, before venturing upon a near 

 approach, he makes a complete circuit at some 

 distance, when, should the peculiar effluvium of a 

 human being reach his nostrils, he goes right away, 

 and leaves that kill alone altogether usually never 

 again returning to it. 



Personally, I have never sat up all night for 



