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to the contrary. From these it will appear that if a tiger does not see or hear 
the sportsman, he is not as alarmed as one would suppose, 
Extract from letter from Lieut, Hardy, R.A. :— 
“| )6. Isat up for him the next night, and my people coming back from 
my machan first met a bear, which they drove off, and then the tiger himself, 
At 8-30 out came a pack of wild dogs ; they stood for a long time under my 
tree, so I had a good look at them. I was just debating about killing one, 
when out came the tiger after them, and there was no end of arow. ‘The 
moon was just going down, soI did not see him well enough to fire ; he 
chased them all over the hill and then came back. I shot at him in the dark as 
he was crossing some white sand, but he did not mind me ; he went for the kill, 
and he and another tiger were round my iree all night, but I could not 
see them.” 
Extract from letter from Surg.-Major Wolseley, MS., dated 22nd February, 
1890 :— 
“ We got kubber that he had killed a fine wild hog and not eaten it, so off 
we went. There sure enough was the pig ; his big head in a pulp, every bone 
being broken, I did not think a tiger could have done it ; he had put big stones 
over it to hide the body ; it was in a deep water course running down a gorge ; 
some coolies had found it in the morning and pulled it from under the stones 
As we could not pug him, I decided to situp .... Unfortunately I had 
not come prepared for a sit up and had no white rag or anything except some 
chalk .... He came about three-quarters of an hour after sunset, when 
it was almost quite dark, TIexpected that he would be very coy when he 
found the pig moved, but not a bit of it. He came bounding down to where 
he had left it, and then he stopped for a minute, having a good look round to 
see what had become of his pork. Then down he came and stood stock-still 
within about five paces of the dead pig. I could only just make him out. I 
put up my rifle two or three times, but could not get on him, The third time 
I decided to chance it and fired in his direction. Where the bullet went I 
never found out, except that it did not enter the tiger. Now for the most 
extraordinary behaviour of this beast; he did not go off with a bound, but 
walked up to where he had:at first stopped about sixty yards up the nullah 
and stood still. I thought he must be wounded ; so, after a little while, I said 
to my Shikari, “he is wounded.” No sooner were the words out of my mouth 
than down he charged to within five yards of my tree, but I could not see him 
properly; it was so dark and thick. He then quietly went off over the hill; it 
was altogether bad luck, for had it been only the other side of the nullah, I 
should have been able to see him and could have fired. Well, this tiger went up 
to a tie-up of ours only two miles off and killed it and had his supper. I fired 
two shots about ten minutes after he had left. These he must have heard,” 
As regards the tiger concealing the pig like a dog burying a bone, this 
seems a very peculiar proceeding, and certainly we have not known a similar 
