CHAPTER II. 



How Tigers are marked down A new method of catching Fish 

 A beat for a Tiger Viewed The first Shot A swimming 

 Shot The last Shot The Death The Beaters How to 

 treat them The Evening of the first Kill Tiger Leg-Mutton 

 Other native Luxuries. 



THE middle of the day at least, not before nine 

 or ten o'clock is the time when, after his nightly 

 wanderings, a tiger is considered to have definitively 

 taken up his residence in some selected spot, till 

 darkness again calls him forth on his errand of 

 death. Before that hour he is restless, uncertain, 

 and easily disturbed ; and, in consequence, the 

 trackers or markers (men placed on the look-out in 

 the neighbourhood of favourite haunts to mark them 

 down) do not feel any confidence that the beast 

 may not move before they can inform the sportsmen 

 of his whereabouts. 



A hungry tiger will often seek his food at any 

 time ; but, as he is very susceptible of heat, unless 

 urged by unusual past abstemiousness, chooses his 

 lair before the sun has attained great height. After 

 the heat of the day sets in, he may generally be 



