98 TIGERS. 



part of the country where there are no large 



animals of prey. Dogs are not of much use 



for shooting in the Ramghur district; they 

 more frequently drive the game from, than 

 towards you. The method I generally fol- 

 lowed was nearly the same as I have before 

 described for driving animals into nets. I 

 took with me from ten to a hundred people, 

 according to the size and thickness of the 

 covers I intended to beat ; always stationing 

 myself at some open place., and the people 

 beating the cover in the direction towards me ; 

 by which arrangement most of the animals 

 and birds came near to me, and I was enabled 

 to kill large quantities of game ; but it was 

 attended with considerable danger, as the fol- 

 lowing circumstances will evince. 



A young gentleman named Barret, one 

 day accompanied me, and as we%v ere beating 

 a small cover for hares, not above half a mile 

 from my house, a hare passed me, and ran 

 into an adjoining cover, which was not ex- 

 tensive. In hastening through it, in order to 



