CHAPTER VII. 

 THE TIGEE (Felis tigris]. 



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. 



ONE of the peculiarities of big game shooting is the fact, 

 that although the particular jungle in which you are 

 located may be full of the tracks of tigers, and of other kinds 

 of big game, days of arduous work in the sun may elapse, 

 without a shot being obtained by any of the party. Some- 

 times this is due to want of co-operation with the local 

 shikaries, or of jealousy on the part of your own shikari, 

 who may ignore the suggestions of the village men, whom 

 he regards as clowns. Even in jungles where tigers are 

 tilling the tied-up animals almost nightly, it not 

 unfrequently happens that the sportsmen are unable to 

 find them, although they may beat day after day over the 

 kills, and in the most likely places in the neighbourhood. 

 In such cases the tiger either travels to some distant 



