MAN-EATEKS. 
from me. One can fancy what an advantage this noiseless 
movement is to the tiger in procuring his prey, and what 
a terribly dangerous brute he becomes when he makes use 
of it in stealing on some unfortunate human being. This 
brings me to say a few words about the man-eaters. Man- 
eating tigers are usually supposed to be old mangy brutes 
that have lost their teeth and power, and take to killing 
human beings as the easiest means of procuring food, but 
it is often the case that man-eaters are fine healthy yuu ng 
tigers with all their teeth perfect and in good condition. 
Now supposing a man-eater to be a tigress who has dis- 
covered how easy it is to take a man at work in the woods, 
or a woman stooping to get water at a nullah ; her cubs 
having for some time been living on human flesh, and hav- 
ing seen their mother kill her victims in this way, would 
become man-eaters themselves. There was a famous man- 
eattng tigress at the foot of the Ntelgherry hills when I 
was there, which was known to have killed more than two 
hundred human beings and a large reward was offered for 
her destruction, but she was so cunning that she baffled all 
attempts. The jungle was often driven, but no tiger was 
seen ; cattle were picketed, but no tigress would come near 
them. At last, a friend of mine happened to be on the spot 
when this brute had just carried off an unfortunate woman as 
she was getting water from a stream, he immediately col- 
lected a few men and took up the track knowing the beast 
would steal away directly she heard beaters. He started 
off and making a circuit got some distance ahead ; presently 
he had the satisfaction of seeing the tigress crossing a dry 
water course not far from him ; she stood for a moment to 
listen ; that moment was her last, a well-directed shot behind 
