INCIDENTS IN TIGER SHOOTING 



We had in some places to even cut our way. 

 Presently, we heard the tiger groaning in front, but 

 could not see him. The tracks entered a lightly 

 jungled ravine which debouched into a stream, the 

 latter in its sinuous course permeating many por- 

 tions of the Naganipur jungles. Telling the men 

 to wait till I had got on ahead, and then to throw 

 in stones and to loose the dogs, I went down to 

 the spot where the ravine met the stream, and 

 then I saw by the tracks that the tiger had already 

 crossed, so we had to follow up again. After some 

 distance they led into a very densely jungled, but 

 narrow nullah, and I directed the men to let me 

 get ,well ahead, and then to come along it on both 

 banks, throwing in stones, and keeping the dogs 

 at work, but on no account to themselves enter the 

 ravine. 



I accordingly went ahead with a man carrying 

 an 8 - bore ball gun, while I took my '500 

 express, and making a detour, we struck the nullah 

 bank some distance down, when, taking the pre- 

 caution to relieve my attendant of the spare gun, 

 I placed the latter resting against a tree. I stood 

 on the bank and waited the issue of events. 



The beat began, and by -and -by I heard old 

 Carlo barking, and very shortly afterwards, out 

 came the big, round head of the tiger, on my side of 

 the nullah, and only some twenty or thirty yards 

 off. His head alone was visible, but he apparently 

 wished to break out at the side, in which case he 

 would have given me a broadside shot ; when, 

 as bad luck would have it, my attendant, overcome 



