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beaters and others on foot, who are in the vicinity 

 of the hunted tiger, are occasionally wounded 

 or killed. This mode of tiger shooting certainly 

 combines sufficient of excitement with personal 

 danger to make it interesting. On foot, it entails 

 an amount of danger and risk of life, which I 

 venture to think is hardly justifiable in a mere 

 amusement, as many serious and fatal accidents 

 only too clearly prove. 



The following incidents, taken from a recent num- 

 ber of Allen's Indian Mail of 6th April, 1874, and 

 the Calcutta Englishman of 24th April, 1874, are 

 examples of the kind of danger that may occasionally 

 occur in tiger-shooting from the howdah : — 



" While antelope-shooting in the Dhoon, up got 

 a tiger which was woimded. On being rapidly 

 followed, tiger, elephant, and rider, all fell into 

 a deep pit dug for catching wild elephants! The 

 tiger crawled up by the elephant's head, and was 

 shot in the act of clutching at the occupant of the 

 howdah, and luckily managed only to claw him 

 slightly, when he rolled over dead! A very 

 narrow escape ! " 



" A rather curious tiger hunt, in which the tiger 

 seemed to think that he should have his share of the 

 sport, aa well as the ' shikari,' occurred some short 

 time ago in the Dhoon. A gentleman well known in 



