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tricts obtained througli the District officers and may, I think, be looked 

 upon as fairly accurate. 



The Thana District and even the Island of Salsette, some 15 or 3U 

 years ago, were constantly over-run with man-eating tigers. My friend, 

 Mr. W. B. Mulock of the Bombay Civil Service, now known as 

 Mr. Homan Mulock, in his native Emerald Island, has killed several 

 man-eaters in the Thana Districts, and even in Salsette not far from 

 the Marole Caves. The last man-eater, previous to the one Mr. Hudson 

 killed, was killed by Mr. Mulock in Thana not very far from the 

 place where Mr. Hudson killed his. Speaking from memory, I believe 

 it was killed abou-t the year 1880, probably m.any of our members 

 will recollect it, because Mr. Mulock wrote an account of it in the 

 local papers, describing how a tigress went into a village near his camp, 

 dragged out a man and carried him off to the jungle. Mr. Mulock 

 was sent for and followed up with the villagers, until he found the 

 victim with one leg eaten off. Mr. Mulock remained over the corpse 

 alone, and sent the men to collect beaters. Whilst they were gone the 

 tigress came back, and Mr. Mulock shot her and took the man's leg- 

 out of her. I was shooting in these districts last May, and had with me 

 a patel who was with Mr. Mulock at the time, and who graphically 

 described to me the whole adventure. I mention this for the purpose 

 of further proving my theory that man-eaters are found in particular 

 districts only. In support of this theory, a man-eater has never been 

 heard of in the extensive jungles of North Kanara in the past twenty-five 

 years, and here I might state that 1 am informed by a gentleman, who 

 is well acquainted with Kanara, that in the extensive jungles of North 

 Kanara, where tigers are plentiful, a man-eater has never been heard of 

 in the last twenty-five years= Since this man-eater was killed by Mr. 

 Mulock, until the one killed by Mr. Hudson, I have been unable to hear 

 of a single man-eater in the Thana CoUectorate. As the tigress killed by 

 Mr. Hudson was not full-grown, it follows that her immediate parents 

 were not man-eaters either, unless they had given up the vice for 

 15 years, which is unlikely, and it also follows that this tigress was not 

 taught her vice by any companion either. However she may have 

 inherited the vice from a grandparent, and this evil character may 

 have remained dormant in her parents, and broken out again in her 

 during her short career. 



