82 TSE ROYAL TIGER OF BENGAL. 



floundering along through the nurkool and water, 

 suddenly, with the usual two short roars or grunts, 

 out sprang a large male tiger. "We both had 

 snap shots at him. As he came at us B. turned him 

 right at me. My two barrels, the contents of one of 

 which he received in the hip, turned him again across 

 the swamp, and then, as he was rushing up the steep 

 bank on the opposite side, he came face to face with 

 H. and D., who shot him dead as he charged up 

 amongst the trees. 



" I measured him ; he was 10 feet 1 inch, as he 

 lay dead on the spot where he was shot. His skin 

 when taken off was over 11 feet. All say he is 

 one of the finest tigers they have seen. He had 

 evidently been sneaking along quietly before the 

 line, hoping to get into the fprest at some favourite 

 opening, but we followed too close for that, and 

 when at last he was forced to break cover in the 

 open, he did what tigers do not often do I am told, 

 charged right at us, though un wounded." 



" March 23rd. — Eecrossed the river this morning 

 at the same place as yesterday, and made for the 

 "kiU" of which we had received information the 

 previous evening ; but, though we found the remains 

 of the cow, the tiger was not there. We pushed on 

 to a patch of long grass jungle, in an open country, 

 here and there interspersed with trees, and as the 

 beaters entered one end, the tiger broke cover from 

 the other, and bolted across the plain towards a 

 ridge of high groimd with some tree jungle and a 



