82 SPORT IN BENGAL. 



among his kind ; but to discredit this measurement, which 

 seems to have been carefully taken as the tiger lay freshly 

 killed, would not be justifiable any more than to reject the 

 accounts of men attaining to eight, and eight and a half 

 feet in height. It is a strange coincidence that the very 

 largest skin I ever saw was one given me by a relative, and 

 it was that of another monster shot in the same vicinity 

 many years afterwards, but on the right bank of the 

 Bhagirutty, and not on " the island of Cossim-bazaar," which 

 then boasted of no jungles capable of harbouring tigers. 

 That skin measured thirteen feet in length, was of propor- 

 tionately vast breadth, and therefore had not been unduly 

 stretched longitudinally; the tail was rather long but not in 

 an extraordinary degree ; the breadth across the back was 

 immense ; the colour was a pale tawny with faint brown 

 stripes widely marked, as if Nature allowing only a certain 

 number of stripes to each individual, the unusual growth 

 of the hide had caused them to be separated at greater in- 

 tervals than was common. This was the skin of a very old 

 and extraordinarily huge tiger ; on the shoulders it was as 

 thick and tough as that of a wild bull, and it exhibited several 

 old scars of cuts and bullet wounds. 



In the illustrated edition of " Natural History," by the 

 Eev. J. G. Woods, M.A., F.L.S., is a description of " Jungla " 

 (Junglee ?) the famous fighting-tiger of Lucknow : " Jungla 

 is one of the finest, if not the very finest tiger that has ever 

 set foot on English ground, and even when penned in the 

 strait limits of a wooden cage that would not permit his 

 noble head to be raised to its full height, and only gave 

 room for a single short step backwards and forwards, his 

 grand proportions were most striking. His present age is 

 about five years. In height he is about four feet, and the 

 relative proportions can be judged from the illustration. 

 The total length of the animal is said by his keeper to be 

 thirteen feet six inches, and in girth he measures four feet 

 eight inches. The principal peculiarity in the appearance of 

 this animal is that nearly all the stripes are double, including 



