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case ; but if the tiger did not do so, who did? ‘The natives moreover, on 
whose testimony it rests, could have no object in lying. 
The last account I give is, I think, of the boldest tiger of all. My autho- 
rity is Mr, Harriott, of the P, W. D.:— 
“« .... Two nights after I had tied up, my men reported that a panther 
had mauled one and had been close to my tents ; sol tied up a goat and made a 
machan. About 7-30 I saw a hyena coming for my goat across a well-lighted 
open piece of ground, As I did not intend to sacrifice my goat to a hyena, I 
shot him and he dropped without a sound. I whistled to my boy at my tents, 
which were near, and he and two other men started to come to me. (1 wanted 
the hyzena removed, but I did not move myself or call out.) They had just 
reached the edge of the nullah on the tent’s side (my machan was a little 
distance on the other side) when I heard a rush, and the panther was on my 
goat like a flash of lightning. He lay on his back for a few seconds with the 
goat held up in the air by his mouth and paws till it was quite dead. Then 
he stood up and I shot him. My men heard the report and the death growl 
and fled back to the tents... . Two days after this occurred I was told 
that another panther had molested one of my garas nearest to my tents, 
goat and machan as before, except that this time it was about 150 yards 
further off than the other one. I remained awake till 11 pm. and 
then went to sleep. About midnight a rush woke me up, and I saw 
a tiger sitting on his haunches with my goat in his mouth. I must 
tell you that about 7-30 one of my kills got loose and came along the 
cattle track to where the goat was tied up. Not understanding the 
goat, he became frightened and began to move about in the ravine close by. 
Thinking he would disturb my sport, I had him tied up among some bushes 
to my left rear, To resume about the tiger. He evidently had not seen the 
buffalo, I fired and missed. I could not see the foresight at all owing to the 
sighting arrangement having come to grief, and as the tiger fled towards the 
jungle, I fired a second shot and missed again. I loaded again, but had hardly 
got the cartridges in when I saw him break cover again. He was bolting and 
obviously making for the buffalo. I fired two more shots and missed both, He 
bounded past between my machan and the buffalo to my rear, and I thought 
he had gone. I sat perfectly still however. I could not make out how I had 
missed, for it was a clear bright moonlight night and the tiger was within 30 
paces of me every time I fired. However, I soon discovered that I had lost the 
linen off the foresight and that I had doubtless been taking too much fore- 
sight and firing over the beast. Fortunately I had a poultice on one of 
my fingers, so I took it off and tied the rag on to the foresight, All this took 
about five minutes, and then I again saw the tiger on the cattle track about 
80 yards to my right looking at the goat and buffalo. He had gone right round 
the back of my machan, and was evidently thinking the position over, and was 
for a time undecided, for he advanced a few paces, then went back, and stood 
