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eaters different Tigers in Annamullay Scarcity of 

 man-eaters Cause of The Poppinapett tigress 

 Destruction of human life by Unsuccessful beats 

 Pochapooram Eluded by man-eater Her end Pre- 

 liminaries of shooting trip Shamantapoor Tying-up 

 baits The soup-plate wallah Poulton's adventure 

 Servant bitten by snake Close shave with cobra 

 Shoot bears Kowlass Rajah's visit Sambur 

 Bear's meat Lingumpulli man-eater Tigress and 

 cubs Man-eater kills buffalo Kola Baloo Close 

 quarters with man-eater Beernecks Tiger's fat 

 Posting of guns Firing during beat ... ... page 65 



CHAPTER VII. 

 THE TIGER (Fells tlgrls}. 



Kills followed by blank beats Reason for this Smoothing 

 tracks The Poopul nullah day Poulton's bear 

 Shimoga Kills,, but no tiger Tigers in a temple 

 Brinjarries Pig sticking Bokur Soamtanah 

 Scientific beat Tiger shot Absurd stampede 

 Shikari killed by tiger Golamorra Gara All miss 

 tiger Unpleasant predicament Heights jumped by 

 tiger Death of an officer and his shikari The tiger 

 killed Panthers good climbers Aiming from trees 

 Major Fergusson's tiger Apparowpett Red ants 

 Fire at tiger Yellow bees Fire at bogus tiger 

 Tiger found dead Captain Preston's accident 

 Makmudpully Manley's adventure Tigress shot 

 Serenade by her admirers Tigers fond of putrid meat 

 A lawyer's shooting party 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 THE TIGER (Fells tlgrls). 



My first tiger Passes between the guns Spur fowl 

 indicates approach Easy shot Tracking up - 

 Demoralised dogs Find tiger dead Its measure- 

 ments Hall wounds tiger Mysteriously disappears 

 Difficulty of seeing Meet two tigers Patterson's 



