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and the following morning at 6 o'clock no trace of it was to be 

 found except a few bloody flocks of wool. Although the whole neigh- 

 bourhood was up to 2 o'clock the same day thoroughly searched and 

 traced, neither then nor afterwards was anything seen of the tiger. 



To prepare the carcase properly, long cuts are made in the 

 fleshiest parts, which are closed again after wall kambing has been 

 strewn in them. Of a buffalo, the neck, loins, groin and thighs 

 are the parts most liked by the tiger. The ears also are usually 

 found eaten off. 



From the condition in which buffaloes and horses killed by 

 tigers are found, it is to be inferred that horses, colts and young 

 buffaloes are seized sideways or from in front, after which the 

 throat is bitten through. The tiger seizes full-grown horned 

 buffaloes generally by one of the legs, which must then, on account 

 of the desperate efforts of the victim to release itself, be held fast 

 with terrible strength. Skin and flesh are often found under the 

 claws of the tiger, cut in a circular form from the leg. With a 

 stroke of the claw in the groin of the buffalo the belly of the 

 strong beast is torn open, and then, defenceless from pain and 

 loss of blood, it is dispatched. Wild dogs also hunt and seize 

 cattle from behind. On cows which have managed to escape from a 

 troop of wild dogs, I have seen the traces of the fearful bites of 

 these beasts, whole pieces of the flesh being torn from the hinder 

 part of the belly. 



A carcase which has been already eaten from during one night 

 or even three, and which then swarms with maggots, is still 

 suitable for poisoning, as the tiger (as also dogs even) is not un- 

 willing to have his game in the condition I found set forth in a 

 French work on pheasants : — " Pour manger un bon faiean, il 

 faut qu'il change de place tout seul." 



After having seasoned the titbit, the surrounding population 

 must be warned to keep their dogs fast tied up, or they would 

 otherwise feast themselves on what was not meant for them. On 

 the following day early in the morning, it must be ascertained by 

 means of persons sent whether any of the carcase has been eaten, 



