232 FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA 
but danger is before them if they lay it aside when 
landing on some rock in order to relieve a jam of 
piled-up timber ; for it may happen that the key- 
stone of the obstruction gives way without sufficient 
warning, and the man, helpless without his float, is 
overwhelmed in a jarring mass of sleepers as the 
flood carries them away. 
There is some shooting to be had in Jaunsdr and 
a useful spaniel will find many pheasants in the 
course of a march through the forest, where also 
there are barking-deer and panthers. But, since 
the great man-eater was killed many years ago by 
Mr. Osmaston, tigers have not been found in these 
forests. Many blood-curdling tales are yet told of 
this monster, some of them, no doubt, mellowed by 
time ; but the simple facts attending his death are 
in themselves quite unusual enough to merit record. 
Mr. Osmaston was taking an evening walk with a 
companion in search of sport, and the two separated 
to command opposite sides of a small ravine, in the 
hope that some animal might be hiding there. Their 
expectations were not unfounded, save that the 
animal was the man-eater, who promptly seized on 
Mr. Osmaston’s companion. The youth’s cry for 
assistance was answered by Mr. Osmaston with two 
shots that killed the tiger on the spot, and, fortu- 
nately, his victim recovered in course of time, though 
severely mauled in the head. ~The scene of the 
occurrence is pointed out to this day by the people 
of the neighbourhood, who are still grateful for their 
timely deliverance from this tyrant of the forest. 
From Jaunsér to the Sundarbans, from the sources 
of the Jamna to where its waters, mingled with 
