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villagers, will ever sit up to kill the tiger 

 when he returns to feed on the remainder. 

 They are more afraid of the apparition of the 

 dead person, than of the living tiger. On se- 

 veral occasions I offered to sit up with them, 

 and to give them a present if we did not suc- 

 ceed in killing the tiger, but I could not pre- 

 vail on any of them to accompany me. 



I have often seen large tigers brought to 

 Chittrah in the Ramghur district, by ten or 

 twelve men, on poles, from the most distant 

 parts of the district, frequently a distance 

 of a hundred and twenty, to a hundred and 

 sixty miles, to obtain the reward often rupees. 

 Sometimes in the hot weather the carcasses 

 on their arrival were so exceedingly putrid, 

 that it was almost impossible to approach 

 them, without being made ill by the stench. 

 It may in some measure be conceived what 

 joy their having killed them must have occa- 

 sioned, to induce them to carry the animals 

 such a distance, with such a horrid smell im- 

 mediately under their noses, when they might 

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