CONTENTS. xill 



CHAPTER XDL 



ADVENTURES IN BISON-SHOOTINQ. 



E!njoyable Character of the Sport — Sporting Knivea — Heavy Rifles — Vitality and En- 

 durance of Bison — How to Approach Bison — One of my First Attempts — My 

 Ally H. — Camp at Yemmay Gudday — Floored with Fever — The Trackers find 

 Bison — Wound a Bull — Follow Him Next Day — A Long Hunt — Brought to 

 Bay — Kill Him — Fingers before Forks — Marrow - Bones — Honey — Bag another 

 Large Bull — Capture Two Tiger-Cubs — Account of how P. and I Slew the Hanay- 

 kerray Bulls — ioiother Old Bull — A Four Days' Hunt — Perseverance Rewarded 

 —The Great Mother. . . . . . . . .253 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE TIGER {FELIS TIGRIS). 



Different Sorts of Tigers— The Cattle-Lifter- Usefulness of Tigers— Small Value of 

 Indian Cattle— The Game-Killer— The Man-Eater— Size and Weight of Tigers— 

 A Tiger Killing and Eating Bears — Cannibal Tigers — Tigers and Wild Dogs — 

 Tigers KiUingl Bison — Method of Seizing their Prey — Fight between Tiger 

 and Buffalo — Hours of Feeding — Tigers Climbing Trees — Powers of Enduring 

 Hunger and Thirst — Hunting-Ranges of Tigers — Breeding of Tigers — Methods of 

 Hunting Tigers — Beating with Elephants — Driving with Beaters — Shooting over 

 " Kills " or Water — Netting — Excuse for this ^iethod — Poisoning and Trapping 

 Tigers. . . 266 



CHAPTER XXL 



TIGER-SHOOTING IN SOUTHERN INDIA- 



Remarks on Tiger-Shooting on Foot — Not necessarily Foolhardy Sport — Effect of 

 the Tiger's Roar — The lyenpoor Man-Eater — Her Ravages — KiUs a Man at Ndg- 

 wuUy — Another Victim — An Unsuccessful Christmas Day's Hunt — A Herds- 

 man's Fate— A Priest Carried Off— The Man -Eater's Cub — Horrible Death of 

 a Villager — An Unsuccessful Pursuit — Her Last Victim — An Affectionate Son-in- 

 law — News of the Man-Eater — An Evening Watch — Her Appearance — Kill Her 

 — The Villagers of Hebsoor — Terrified Agriculturists — The " Don " Tiger — His 

 Habits and Peculiarities — EflBgy of the Don — An Inland Cyclone — The Don's 

 Gluttony — We Hunt Him — An After-Dinner Run — Wound Him — He Escapes for 

 the Time — Continue the Chase next Day — His Death — Regrets — Boiling Down 

 the Don's Fat. ......... 293 



