TSE ROYAL TIGES OF BENGAL. 63 



sportsmen is — always aim at the train." We might 

 add also — do not shoot tigers on foot ! 



The following incidents, extracted from Indian 

 papers, are interesting: — 



" On Monday morning (the .13th) as two officers 

 of H.M.'s 66th Eegiment, Messrs. F. and 0., 

 were out in the jungles helow Eamghat, above 

 Sawunt Waree, and on the look-out for bison 

 and bears, one of them was followed by a tiger, 

 which scared the native shikarrie into a tree, leaving 

 Mr. 0. to face the growling brute. It advanced 

 towards him by a bound or two, but as the hunter 

 stood firm the game began to move off, and then in- 

 cautiously placed itself on a rock, whereupon the 

 sportsman accepted the invitation and gave him a 

 bullet through the shoulder. This appears to have 

 been a fatal shot, for the tiger gave a lurch forward 

 and threw itseK down a ravine, where, by blood 

 stains, it was tracked by Mr. F. into a deep 

 cavern. Having no beaters to assist nor lights to 

 guide them, the hunters were obliged to leave their 

 prey to die alone. The place where the incident 

 occurred is nearly five miles north-west of the 

 Ghat highway, and as the slain beast was a 

 reputed man-eater, the few villagers who dwell 

 in those mountain districts are well pleased be- 

 cause the sahibs got the tiger, instead of the 

 tiger getting one of the sahibs, as he evi- 



