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Chapter VIII. is perhaps the most interesting, as it deals with 

 Tigers, Leopards, *S;c., and numerous the former must have been in 

 those days ; time after time the author was able, as he says, for an 

 hour or two, to watch them, when unable to get near enough to shoot 

 one ; this facility of observation unfortunately is not given to most 

 people now-a-days. However he says : " I have never seen a tiger 

 strike down an animal. I have seen them chase deer, but they never 

 go more than 200 or 300 yards. * * Two tigers will often hunt in 

 concert, generally in couples. T have often watched them thus when 

 approaching a herd of deer. A brother officer told me that he saw a 

 tiger drive a deer up to some rocks, where another one was crouching, 

 ready to spring upon it. On one occasion, whilst out looking for 

 sambur, I saw a stag out feeding above a strip of jungle and noticed 

 a tiger stealing along below it ; the deer began bellowing and moved 

 up the hill, followed by the tiger, the latter trotting after the deer, 

 and occasionally breaking into a canter, the deer trotting on with its 

 tail up. The tiger did not attempt to stalk, except by remaining for 

 a moment at a rock. The stag broke into a gallop, and the tiger 

 immediately followed it, just then my shikari said : " Look, there's 

 another tiger above," and there was one bounding down the hills to 

 cut off the deer ; " unfortunately, at this interesting moment they were 

 lost sight of. The author gives, as his experience, that tigers do not 

 hunt by scent, and that they have uo idea of taking advantage of the 

 wind when stalking ; on one occasion, when looking for a deer with a 

 friend, he heard a sambur belling ; I whispered to my companion 

 that I thought there must be a tiger in the wood ; I had hardly spoken, 

 when we heard a low gutteral growl, and every time the deer belled 

 the tiger answered with a growl. Then a third deer commenced 

 belling, and for several minutes this went on, the tiger answering- 

 with a growl every bell of the deer. The tiger appeared to be 

 approaching us, when suddenly the growling ceased, but the belling 

 of the deer continued ; a short time afterwards a hind dashed into 

 the open, but no tiger appeared. I have heard a tiger growl to the 

 bell of a deer at other times, but never so persistently as on this 

 occasion ; now my idea is that the tiger by growling, sets all the 

 deer belling, and when he has fixed on the exact spot where one may 

 be standing, he suddenly stops answering and proceeds to stalk the 

 animal ; if the tiger had sufficient sense of smell to hunt the deer by 



