160 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 
by a stroke is erroneous. I have never seen any- 
thing to support this belief nor is it held by natives. 
I have seen several cattle severely lacerated which 
had escaped from tigers, where had a heavy blow 
accompanied the strokes of the paws, bones must 
have been broken. 
There is no foundation for the belief in tigers 
sucking the blood of their victims; the jugular vein 
is seldom if ever injured; it is by the fracturing of 
the vertibrz, not by blood-letting, that the tiger’s 
prey is deprived of life. In eating, the tiger invar- 
iably commences at the hindquarters and the exact 
spot where the first mouthful will be taken can be 
told with certainty. 
The flesh of one or both thighs, and sometimes 
the flanks, or about fifty or sixty pounds of meat 
is eaten the first night. 
Tigers seldom lie up far from their kill if the 
cover be thick and quiet; they eat whenever inclined 
either by day or night till the carcass is finished; 
this is usually on the third day; but of course, this 
depends upon the size of the animal killed. After 
or during a meal the tiger drinks largely, often 
walking belly deep into the water. 
Tigers’ power of enduring hunger and thirst is 
very great. Once we surrounded with nets a tiger, 
tigress and a leopard. We shot the leopard the 
first day, but the enclosed thicket was so dense that 
we could not get the tigers to show, but on the fifth 
day we wounded them both. After this, as nothing 
