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breast; the arrow generally enters behind the 

 shoulders. According to the account given 

 to me by the Shecarries, they seldom live half 

 an hour after receiving the wound. 



The Captain observes that this method of 

 shooting arrows, is exclusively followed by 

 Pahariahs or hill people. In this, he has 

 been misinformed; I believe the only people 

 who practise it, are a race of men, inhabitants 

 of the district of Dinagepore, East of the river 

 Ganges, who travel all over Bengal, wherever 

 tigers are to be met with, for the sole purpose 

 of killing them, in order to obtain the reward 

 given by government, often rupees for every 

 tiger. Something more they receive as pre- 

 sents from the inhabitants, and gain a little 

 by the sale of their teeth and claws, which 

 are worn by the natives as charms. 



I believe it frequently happens that they are 

 paid twice by government for killing the 

 same animal, by producing the head of a tiger 

 to a collector of one district, and the skin to 



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