CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER XIV. 



A TIGER HUNT. 



PAGE 



Tigers. —The Game-killer. — The Cattle-lifter.— The Man-eater.— 

 Reign of Terror. — Eight Hundred Victims Annually. — Modes of 

 Tiger-hunting. — Howdah Shooting. — Maehan Shooting. — Shoot- 

 ing on Foot. — An Impromptu Tiger hunt. — The Trail. — A Light 

 " Battery."— The Game Overhauled.— A Good Shot.— Death of 

 a Superb '' Game-killer."— Dimensions and Weight. — A Proud 

 Moment. — Struggle to Preserve the Skin 153-160 



CHAPTER XY. 



SKELETONIZING AN ELEPHANT. 



Mischievous Elephants. — Chase of a Large Herd. — Death of a Tusker. 

 — Forbidden Ground. — A Secret. — The Mulcer's Oath. — A Change 

 of Base. — Skeletonizing an Elephant in Sixteen Hours. — Cacheing 

 the Bones. — The Traces of our Guilt. — Moral Aspect of the Affair. 

 —The Spotted Deer.— A Pretty Picture.— The Indian Elk or Sam- 

 bur. — Bad Case of Protective Coloring. — Serenaded by Sambur. — 

 The "Brain-fever bird."— Tree Rats.— The Muntjac— Delicious 

 Venison. — The Neilgherry Goat. — Wild Hogs 161-173 



CHAPTER XVI. 



THE SECOND YEAR OF THE MADRAS FAMINE. 



Sickness in the Jungle. — Temporary Absence from the Hills. — A 

 Starving Waif.— The Spectre of Famine. — Famind-stricken Na- 

 tives. — Cause and Effects of the Famine. — The Relief Camp at 

 Animallai. — A Review of the Hungry. — The Government and the 

 Famine. — " Money Doles." — Mortality. — " Be ye Warmed and 

 Fed ! "—End of the Drought 174-181 



CHAPTER XVn. 



THE POETRY OF FOREST LIFE.— BISON SHOOTING. 



Return to the Hills. — Benighted in the Jungle. — Native Meanness. — 

 Doraysawmy, the " Gentleman's God."— A Jewel of a Servant. — 

 Prospects. — Fever again. — Bass' Pale Ale. — Glorious Weather. 

 — Fine Forest. — The Poetry of Life in the Forest. — Our Mode of 

 Hunting. — A Bison Hunt. — Death of a Solitary Bull. — A Noble 

 Animal. — Characters and Habits of the Species. — Another Hunt. 



