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THE TROPICAL 
AGKICULTUELST. [Sei't. 2, 1901. 
her. Her tracks oue morniug showed that she had 
gone alonp; a nuUah not ten yards from one of the 
tied-up bullocks, but she had not touched it, and it 
seemed as if she fed on game only, as no damage 
to any of the cattle herds in the neighbourhood had 
been reported. I had quite given up all hope of 
getting a thot at her, and had, on my last day at 
the village of A., arranged fur coolies to bo collected to 
beat through a hill near my camp which was a sure find 
for bear if only they could be persuaded to break which 
was not always the case, as there were so many caves in 
the hillside), when word was brought that a kill 
had taken place in a nullah between the bear's 
hill and my camp. Ou going to inspect the place 
where this had happened, I found that the carcase 
had only been dragged a short way from the nullah 
into the jungle along its biinks, and but little of it 
had been eaten. The tracks showed that there wus 
a oiib with the tigress — a fact of which I 
had not been aware, and the tracks further showed 
that after their meal the two animals had 
separated, the cub remaining in the jungle near by 
■while its mother had returned by the way she had 
come to the kill. For about two miles we followed 
her tracks which led us away from the nullah, 
and theri they struck a small village path and we 
lost them. This was disappointing ; but there was 
the chance that the tigress had gone round by some 
other way to join its cub, so I gave up all thought 
of having a bear beat, and instead made arrange- 
ments to beat along the foot of the hill on both 
sides of the nullah for the cub, and, if possible, for 
its mother too. The spot that I selected for my 
station was on the side of a small dried-up 
stream (a tributary in the rainy season of the nullah 
where the kill had taken place) ; all around me was 
grass jungle with scattered trees, and about 400 
yards to my left was the bear's hill. Directly 
behind me, about 600 yards away, was another hill, 
for which it was anticipated the tigers would make 
on being disturbed. It was necessary, in such a 
grass jungle to have a large number- of stops, for 
although the grass was high and thick it was not 
matted, and a tiger could get through it easily any- 
where so I selected forty of the least stupid-looking 
from among the coolies assembled and placed 
twenty 'on each side of me, those on the left ex- 
tending up to the foot of the hill. While laying 
the stops sn the left my " shikari " came face to 
face with the tigress who was sleeping alone — 
the cub not being with her, at least my " shikari' 
did not see it — in a small depression at the foot of 
the hill. Fortunately, on being disturbed, she bounded 
off into the forest through which the beaters were to 
pass. 
I had waited about two hours in my macJian before 
I heard the welcome sound of the beaters adrancing 
and, as I lifted up and cocked my rifle, I scared a 
covey of bush quail, that had allowed me to watch 
them feeding among the sal leaves below me and 
they scurried away across the dry stream and into 
the grass ou my right. Ten minutes later I heard 
the sound of an animal coming towards me on my 
right ; at first 1 thought it must be the tigress as 
it made so much noise among the dry leaves in 
the nullah, but it vitis only a four-horned antelope 
buck that stood and looked at me and offered a 
most tempting shot at twenty yards which, of 
course, 1 did not take. Then after another wait of 
10 or 15 minutes, the tiger-cub appeared. It came 
towards me across the bed of the nullah at a 
good rate, and I fired, when it was almost below 
me, between the shoulders, killing it at once. 
All this time I was not aware that the tigress 
was in the heat, as my shikari did not tell me till 
afterwards that ho had almost stumbled upon her 
as ho was laying out the stops, and I was conse- 
duently very pleased to hear a low growl that 
could only come from her, soon after I had shot 
tk« cu)? I hcariJ l^er moving about the bed of thq 
nullah, apparently coming and recrossing it, and 
though I imagine she saw me, I never caught a 
glimpse of her, until the beaters were nearly up to 
her, and then she sprang across the nullah and 
through the grass to my left offering me two snap 
shots, both of which were unfortunately misses. 
Tliey were both difficult shots : the first among the 
trees, and as there was a bend in the nullah wheQ 
she crossed it, I could not get a clear view of her ; 
and the second, in the long grass. The latter 1 
ought to have made fairly sure of, but as I was 
on the point of firing I noticed that one of the stops, 
who was in a lov tree to my left and rather 
below me, was almost in the line of fire, and 1 
had to hold my fire until the tigress got well 
clear of this line. This delay put me off my shot, 
and, in all probability, __jiocounted for my miss. 
After the beaters had come up, and I had searched 
carefully to see if either of my shots at the 
tigress had taken effect, I decided on another beat, 
through the low hill that I have already said was 
situated behind where I h:id been stationed. The 
tigress' track lay straight in this direction, and it 
appeared as if she must be lying np there ; but the 
beat which was a miserable, uncomfortable one, as 
a drizzling rain set in while the stops were being 
placed, proved blank, and we found that the tigress 
had made for this hill; but instead of ascending it, 
she had skirted along its foot and gone thence to 
some thick jungle and hills to the south-west. It 
was too late then to think of trying to hunt her 
up there, for I had 8 miles to go to my next camp 
and the sun was then very near the horizon, so I 
had to be contented with the cub I had bagged, and 
leave the mother for some future occasion. 
ANTONG, I{aipur,C.P. 
Indian Forester. 
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