

CHAPTER VIII. 

 THE TIG-EB (Felis tigris). 



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 pony Scarcity of man-eaters Benki- 

 pore man-eater Kargeehully ravine Beaters form groups 

 Hyena mistaken for tiger Result Large tiger at Benki- 

 pore Swims river Returns Stampede Shoot tigress at 

 Komalapully March to Rajavole Joined by Colonel 

 Russell Gara Tiger escapes Another gara Same result 

 Tiger's tactics Two more garas Arrangements for beat 

 Tiger shot Mankote Penconda Pakhal lake Variety 

 of game Chundraopett Bobbery elephant Tiger marked 

 down Charges Death of the Romper Tiger shooting 

 not necessarily dangerous Staunch elephants scarce 

 Shooting tigers on foot Death of Doig Devaroy Droog 

 Shoot a beater His recovery Sporting parties Adven- 

 ture with boar Small rope useful. 



AFTER many days' unsuccessful beating in various jungles 

 in the Deccan and Mysore (forty-seven days without even 

 seeing a tiger), my first tiger was shot near Santawerry, 

 on the Baba Booden Hills, in Mysore, in 1870. The 

 previous fortnight bad been devoted to a solitary and 

 unsuccessful* excursion so far as tigers were concerned 

 down to tbe plains, and on the morning of the 13th May 

 I bad ridden twenty miles from Kadoor, to join my friend 

 Patterson on tbe hills. On arrival tbere, I found tbat all 

 the sahibs (six) were beating for a tiger on a bill opposite 



