INCIDENTS IN TIGER SHOOTING 



the impression that two tigers had been feeding 

 upon it. 



After a time S. called out to me, " I say, Russell, 

 I have fired at the biggest tiger I have ever seen 

 in my life ! " (He had never seen any before which 

 were not behind iron bars.) It appeared at last 

 as if nothing more were forthcoming, so I got 

 down and walked over to his post. His ladder 

 was placed against a date-palm tree facing an open 

 sward, beyond which was dense jungle. 



The tigress (for such it proved) had walked 

 along the open at the edge of the cover, whereupon 

 S. fired at her and she fell to the shot, but recover- 

 ing herself she had disappeared in the thicket. He 

 told me exactly where he had hit her, viz., low 

 down behind the shoulder. 



I went to the place where she had disappeared, 

 and crawled under the thorny jungle on my hands 

 and knees for a short distance, and then, having 

 found blood, I went back, resolving to have lunch 

 in order to give her time to die (should she be 

 inclined in that direction) before following her up. 



While we were at lunch, we heard an extra- 

 ordinary cry from the jungle, and the coolies, 

 believing that the tigress was coming out upon 

 them, fled helter-skelter in our direction, tumbling 

 over one another in some cases in their hurry and 

 fright. 



After luncheon and a smoke, we proceeded to 

 follow up ; I led the way and did the tracking, 

 with S. and B. close on my heels. None of the 

 natives would come in, nor would the conductor 



