IJO THK tiger's dread OK MAN. 
the shoulder rolled her over dead I saw the skin, it was 
one of the most beautiful 1 had ever seen, without a spot 
or blemish. 
As a rule the man eater ts more cowardly than the 
ordinary tiger. It prowls about villages and pounces upon 
some unfortunate woman or woodcutter ; indeed, I liave been 
told, but I cannot vouch for the truth, that the noise of 
the woodcutters axe will attract a man-eating tiger. 1 have 
on several occasions been in the neighbourhood of man- 
eaters ; 1 never liked it, but felt comparatively safe as I have 
never known or heard of an instance of any European or 
native armed and on the alert being attacked. 
Most tigers are great cowards. They are nothing more 
than gigantic cats and we all know that cats are not very 
courageous animals ; some cats show more courage than 
others, so it is with tigers, but they are quite as much afraid 
of meeting man, as man is of meeting them. A man knows 
that the tiger could kill him as easily as a cat could kill a 
mouse, but fortunately most tigers do not know this and have 
an instinctive dread of man. For the three years I was in 
charge of the Annamullay Teak forests, I may say I lived 
with tigers. I could hardly go out a day without finding 
fresh foot marks, yet I knew 1 was comparatively safe, for 
the karders, a race of hill men, inhabiting the forest, never 
hesitated to return to their homes on the darkest night, and 
in no instance had any of them ever been attacked by a 
tiger. 1 had, therefore, no fear of returning home through 
the forest after dark. 
On one occasion, however, rather a creepy feeling came 
over me. I was forcing my way through some high grass 
late one evening when on looking dowMi I saw a tiger's foot 
