So WILD ANIMALS.' 



This animal was ultimately shot, on one of his devastating prowls 

 through the village, by the shikarries, who hid themselves on the 

 roofs of some of the houses, and waited for him. 



He gives another account of a friend who shot two notorious 

 man-eating tigers which infested the jungle-track near Seeonee, 

 in the Central Provinces. One's death was under the follow- 

 ing circumstances : " He was out in the jungle, with his gun- 

 bearer with spare gun behind him, and was walking quietly 

 down the bank of a very tigerish nullah, a sudden rush, and a 

 despairing cry from the native, startled him, and he turned round, 

 only to see the tiger leap into the deep nullah, with the gun- 

 bearer in his jaws. He fired instantly, and wounded the tiger, 

 which thereupon left the unfortimate man and retreated into the 

 depth of the jungle. The victim's chest was crushed in, and he 

 lay a corpse in the nullah. The sportsman returned to camp for 

 his elephant, and followed up and killed the tiger." 



The man-eaters are conspicuous even among tigers for their 

 cowardly and cunning natures, for their want of sleekness and 

 good condition^ and they seem to have the intuitive power of dis- 

 criminating between an armed and an unarmed man. Occasionally 

 young tigers have been known to take to man-eating. This is 

 accounted for by the fact that the mother was a man-eater, and 

 the cubs, which do not leave her until they are capable of pro- 

 curing their own prey, naturally acquire the taste, and adopt the 

 same food as the parent — hence become in early life "man-eaters." 



The action of tigers in killing their prey has been variously 

 described, some stating that their usual way is to launch themselves 

 upon their victim, and, seizing it by the back of the neck (not the 

 throat), bring it to the ground, and then give the fatal wrench 

 or twist that dislocates the neck. Others, that they seize the nape 

 of the neck with their teeth, and with the paws so bold the victim 

 as to get a purchase for the wrench, which produces dislocation. 

 Mr. Sanderson, who, from having been a keen sportsman, and also 

 tiger-slayer to the Mysore Government, is undoubtedly a reliable 

 authority, contradicts these statements, and says that although 

 they do sometimes seize by the throat or neck, they most 

 frequently bring down the animal by striking savagely at the 



