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tied up in the place of her old kill. Wewere engaged with other 
tigers some distance off, hence the necessity of keeping her in the 
neighbourhood till we arrived. There is no real cruelty in tying 
out baits for tigers. At any rate, few tigers would be killed with- 
out baits, and the one sacrificed saves the lives of all the other 
animals that the tiger would kill if he was not shot. So ‘on the, 
principle of the greatest happiness of the greatest numbers, tying 
out would be justifiable. But I also believe that animals killed 
by a tiger suffer little, if anything, beyond an instinctive panic for 
a few seconds. Dr. Livingstone has recorded in his travels in South 
Africa, that when he was seized by a lion, the shock produced a 
stupor and dreaminess in which there was no sense of pain or feel- 
ing of terror, though conscious of all that was happening, and he ex- 
presses his opinion that this peculiar state is produced in all animals 
killed by the carnivora, and is a merciful provision of our Creator 
for lessening the pain of death. I have conversed with both EKuro- 
peans and natives who have been boned by tigers and panthers, and 
they all confirm this view. Animals, until the moment the tiger 
arrives, are unconscious of their fate, and the probability is that Dr. 
Livingstone’s opinion is well founded; that at the moment of attack 
they get stupified and insensible to fear or pain. I once saw a 
bullock ina beat lie down and stretch his neck out flat on the 
ground, as if for concealment when the tiger approached. After the 
tiger had been shot, the bullock rose and began grazing. Jam in- 
clined to think that the fear of the bullock in this case was caused. 
as much by the noise of the beat as by the presence of the 
tigers A tiger sometimes kills immediately after having fed 
if he comes across a fresh bullock. Last year I shot a tigress 
that had first killed a stray bullock, about three hundred 
yards from one of my ties-up. Having eaten the hind quar- 
ters, the tracks led to the tie-up. This she killed and dragged 
away into an adjacent hill. On another occasion, after eating 
killed five buffalo calves, out of a herd of eight 
the tie-up, a tiger 
They all lay close together within a 
calves that had strayed near. 
space of twenty yards, and not more than 
Jl of them had been seized by the throat, 
200 yards from where the 
tiger had been eating. A 
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and were otherwise uninjured. It is possible that the tiger in this 
surbed by the calves coming near where he was 
ad sallied forth and killed them. But 
case had been dist 
eating, and being annoyed, h 
I do not think so, as I could not find any tracks returning to the kill. 
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