CHAPTER XXII. 



TIGER-SHOOTING IN SOUTHERN INDIA — {continued). 



A griffin's exploit— a netted tigress — OUR NARROW ESCAPE — A SMALL BOT'b 

 ADVENTURE WITH A TIGER — A VISITOR WELCOME AT ANT HOUR — NEWS FROM 

 POONJOOR — A TIGRESS RESISTS BOMMAY GOUDa's RESEARCHES — I ASSIST IN PGR- 

 8UIHG INVESTIGATIONS — THE CAUSE OF HER CONTUMACY — SHOOT HER ON FOOT — A 

 COURAGEOUS CUB— BOMMAY GOUDa's WORTHLESS SON — A TIMID TIGRESS— WOUND 

 HER — A MARKER TREE'D — LOOK FOR THE TIGRESS ON FOOT — A CLOSE INTERVIEW — 

 WE RETIRE GRACEFULLY — A DEAD TIGER COMES TO LIFE AND ESCAPES — A NIGHT- 

 WATCH — KILL THE TIGRESS — A CAUTIOUS TIGRESS — MOONLIGHT SCENE — SHOOT TEBf 

 WOULD-BE DESTROYER — JACKALS AT A CARCASS — THE TIGER'S ARRIVAL — A WAR:! 

 RECEPTION — SEARCH FOR THE WOUNDED TIGER ON FOOT BY MOONLIGHT — RECOVER 

 HIM. 



AMONGST many incidents connected veith tiger -sliooting which I 

 remember, one happened to a friend and myself in the days of 

 our griffinage, when we had a very narrow escape from a wounded tigress. 

 This tigress had been netted in the method already described, and we had 

 fired at her as she bounded across the line cleared through the enclosure ; 

 and as after this neither fireworks nor showers of sticks and stones moved 

 her, we determined to go inside and look her up. We had no elephants^ 

 SO went in on foot. We, however, designed some method in our madness, 

 and arranged to have a net carried on uprights by men with us, and a good 

 display of spear-points through it, whilst the jungle was to be cleared for 

 our advance by long-handled choppers used under and through the net. If 

 the tigress charged, the spears were to do what they could towards keeping 

 her ofT, whilst we were to receive her with our rifles, and doubted not our 

 ability to extinguish her ! 



The service of going inside was, however, quite at a discount amongst 

 the men ; they were now giving way and asking each other reproachingly 

 " why they didn't go in," whilst only three headmen expressed themselves. 



