INCIDENTS IN TIGER SHOOTING 



a stiff climb to reach us ; but when at last he 

 arrived, we learned that a second tiger had passed 

 near him, but that he had not been able to get 

 a shot at it. It would have been luck indeed had 

 we succeeded in bagging the pair! 



We then rode about nine miles across country to 

 the other place, but the beat was fruitless, and a pig 

 which K. hit, though we followed it for some 

 distance, till waning day compelled our return to 

 camp, escaped. 



It is very seldom that chance beats, i.e., those 

 undertaken without any certain knowledge of a 

 tiger's whereabouts, are successful ; still, they are 

 so occasionally, and upon the first two occasions 

 (in 1895) on which I beat the Lakwallie teak 

 plantations of the Kadur district of Mysore for 

 spotted deer, I bagged a tiger and a tigress re- 

 spectively. I beat them frequently afterwards, 

 with much more elaborate arrangements and or- 

 ganisation, without even seeing another of these 

 felines. 



Upon the first occasion I was alone, and the 

 initial beat was through a large extent of plantation 

 between the Toonga Budra river and the Govern- 

 ment road. My ladder was posted against a tree 

 near the bank of the river, where the plantation 

 ran out into a somewhat narrow tongue. Even 

 from my ladder, the deep bank was out of my sight, 

 and I had posted a stop down below it to prevent 

 animals from passing along that way. 



The beat was a very tedious business, for not 

 only was the piece of plantation to be driven a very 



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