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education; "men, therefore, are liable to be eaten 

 where tigers exist." 



One gentleman, writing from Nayadunka in July, 

 1869, says — " Cattle killed in my district are 

 numberless. As regards human beings, one tiger 

 in 1867-1868-1869 kiUed respectively 27, 34, 47 

 people. I have known it attack a party, and kill 

 four or five at a time. Once it kiUed a father, 

 mother, and three children ; and the week before it 

 was shot it killed seven people. It wandered over 

 a tract of twenty miles, never remaining in the 

 same spot two consecutive days, and at last was 

 destroyed by a bullet from a spring gun when 

 returning to feed at the body of one of its victims 

 — a woman. 



" At NyneeTal inKumaon, in 1856-57-58,.there 

 was a tiger that prowled about within a circle say of 

 twenty miles, and it killed on an average about 

 eighty men per annum. The haunts were well 

 known at all seasons. * * * * This tiger was 

 afterwards shot while devouring the body of an 

 aged person it had killed." 



Captain E. relates an incident which illustrates 

 the superstition of the native in regard to tigers : — 



" A tiger in Ohota Nagpore destroyed a great 

 number of lives. * * * * I had a weapon set 

 across its known path, and it was only a matter of 

 hours before his career was stopped. But what was the 



