vi PBEFACE. 



need hardly say, was never written with a view to 

 publication. 



From the same source I have derived the details 

 attending the engagement with the last tiger whose 

 death is recorded in these pages. 



It is not professed that all the note-worthy inci- 

 dents narrated took place during one expedition. I 

 have included the most remarkable of several by 

 making selections from my various journals. 



With regard to the anecdotes related by one or 

 other of the hunters themselves, it will be readily 

 discerned that a few must be taken cum, yrano. I 

 have, however, endeavoured to distinguish between 

 the latter and those which, from my personal know- 

 ledge, I know to be true ; or which, having been 

 related to me as such by others, I believe to be so. 



Such little incidents as " Tiger leg-mutton," 

 " stewed-eel soup," &c., are facts. 



I trust, therefore, that being as it is, for the 

 most part, a narrative of adventure, it will be 

 deemed not only of interest to the sportsman, but 

 worthy of perusal by the general reader ; though 1 



