TIGERS AND WILD DOGS. 1 67 



cry is heard you may be sure a tiger is with him. I only 

 once saw a tiger and a jackal together ; I had heard of a 

 tiger having killed a buffalo, and went to try and get a shot at 

 him. As I came to the place I saw him stealing away, out 

 of rifle range, in company with the jackal which kept at a 

 respectful distance on his flank and trotted along with his 

 back arched showing every appearance of cringing fear. I 

 fancy the tiger has no love for his companion and would eat 

 him as soon as look at him if he could only get the chance. 



It has been said that wild dogs will attack and kill a 

 tiger ; I doubt it ; but I know that they will beset a tiger as 

 if they were aware of his instinctive fear of the canine race. 

 A friend of mine, a coffee planter, going round his plantation 

 heard a curious noise in the forest bordering his estate, he 

 cautiously stole in to see what was the matter ; on going 

 round the corner of a thick bush he almost trod upon the tail 

 of a tiger standing with his back towards him ; he silently 

 retreated, but as he did so he saw there was a pack of wild 

 dogs a few paces in front of the tiger yelping at him and 

 making the peculiar noise which had previously attracted his 

 attention. Having procured his rifle he returned with some 

 of his men to the spot ; the tiger was gone but they disturbed 

 a large pack of wild dogs feeding on the body of a stag, 

 which on examination was found to have been killed by the 

 tiger for there were marks of its teeth in the stag's neck. 

 The dogs had evidently driven him from his prey. 



The inhabitants of the Nielgherry hills only discovered 

 the tiger's dread of dogs a short time before I left India. 

 These hills are undulating and interspersed with detached 

 woods (sholas) and forests ; occasionally in one of these 

 sholas a tiger will take up his quarters, and when this is 



