42 HINTS ABOUT STALKING. 



siderably over six feet in height and decidedly fleshy. He was 

 my first instructor in wood craft, and many a wrinkle he gave 

 me, two of which I found particularly useful in after days. 

 One was with regard to stalking a deer in the forest ; to 

 remain perfectly motionless the moment a deer catches sight 

 of you, as the least movement will send the animal away ; it 

 may be necessary to stand thus for five or even ten minutes, 

 but if you do not move the deer will commence feeding again ; 

 you can then approach nearer, doing so with the greatest 

 caution, but the instant the deer raises its head ycu must be 

 exactly in the same position you were when it first saw you ; 

 again you may have to wait, but each time if you have not 

 been seen to move, the animal will gain more confidence. A 

 curious thing is that it does not appear to be aware that you 

 have reduced the distance by a hundred or two hundred 

 yards ; I have made many successful stalks with different 

 kinds of animals in this way, not only in the forests but even 

 on the open hills ; it requires, however, a deal of patience and 

 considerable quickness of sight. The other advice was, when 

 shooting tigers on foot never to fire at one if you can possibly 

 avoid it, when the line of the tiger's body is towards you ; for 

 when hit, if you have not succeeded in crippling him, the 

 tiger will invariably spring forward in the line of its body ; 

 but if the body is away from you, and the tiger even looking 

 at you, it will still spring straight forward at the shot. 

 The only time I tried it the tiger was looking back at me 

 about fifteen or twenty yards off, and though very slightly 

 grazed by the bullet, it bounded straight away from me, 

 enabling me to kill it with my second barrel. 



Old Emam was a little too fond of arrack, but an 

 excellent shikarie for all that. It was strange to meet with a 



