PEEFACE. 



AT the suggestion of friends, I have here given a short 

 account of some of my doings during a long residence 

 in India. The propriety of the suggestion may be 

 doubted, but having been adopted, the book must stand 

 for what it is worth. 



Tiger stories have been told before, and as I gene- 

 rally find them received with incredulity in England, 

 it seems only fair that I should aid in establishing the 

 veracity of my brother-sportsmen. 



But I should hardly have had the temerity to 

 appear in public, had I not received the valuable 

 assistance of Colonel E. Baigrie, late Assistant Quarter- 

 Master-General on the Bombay Establishment, to 

 whom I am indebted for the principal illustrations by 

 which the book is enlivened. 



Himself an ardent sportsman, and a keen observer 

 of forest scenery and all its surroundings, he has well 



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