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way, is the same as was used by his father when he last shot in Nepal. The rest 
of the party are the Earl of Cromer, Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, Col. 
Worgan, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Capt. the Hon’ble Piers Legh and the Hon’ble 
Bruce Ogilvy and myself. Every-body is expectant though nothing happens for 
sometime. On the other side of the huge river bed, now reduced to a narrow 
stream, stretches the jungle for mile on mile. It is very hot, the elephants are 
impatient and every now and then one of them gives utterance to restless trum- 
peting. Suddenly there is a movement on the left hand side of the line and 
General Kaiser, the Master of Ceremonie.s, who had organised all the Shikar 
arrangements in connection with the shoots, rides in on a fast trotting pad ele- 
phant with news of a tiger and off we start. The elephants move forward with 
their wierd lumbering gait. H. R. H. leads the procession ; followed immediately 
by the party and then an army of pad elephants, and stiU more pad elephants to 
be used in case of accidents. Ponderously the line proceeds through the dense 
jungle, crossing many a placid stream, and emerging at times from the cool shade 
of the giant trees into some glade where the sun beat hot and fierce, only to 
plunge again into the cool depths of the evergreen jungle. One is instinctively 
impressed with the calm and twilit grandeur of these gigantic forests. Within 
their depths all is stillness and no movement is discernible. There is nothing to 
break the monotonous tread of the elephants save an occasional burst of 
drumming from cicadas whose shrill music subsides as quickly as it rises. Sud- 
denly there is a stir in the line. All the elephants begin to close up, shoulder to 
shoulder, and the great beasts stand to form the ring. All is expectancy : 
there is an outburst of shouting from the beaters ; out rushes a deer and escapes 
terrified into the jungle shortly followed by another and another. Then the 
real thing happens and there is a cry ‘ Bagh, Bagh ’ from the beaters. The 
tiger at last ! A glimpse of a yellowish form is seen in the long grass for 
the space of a few seconds and is at once lost to view. Once again it is 
seen behind a tree trunk. Closer advance the beaters, the tiger charges out, 
but he is a wary beast and seems to know intuitively where the guns are 
posted and gives them a wide berth. Again and again he is driven out only to 
seek cover in the long grass away from the guns. A Shikari climbs a tree 
and pelts him with stones. The manoeuvre succeeds, and once again we get 
a half length view of ‘ stripes ’ as he makes a spring at his tormentor in the 
tree top. The ring closes in upon him, but with a roar he dives into the long 
grass ; another roar and he show's himself quite near the Royal howdah. A 
moment’s suspense andH. R. H. fires and a second afterwards two more shots 
ring out. The Prince has hit. The tiger though mortally wounded has 
plenty of go in him and charges to the opposite side and is buried once more in 
the heavy cover. The ring closes in : a shot rings out : and the tiger rolls over 
dead. I descend from my how'dah and measure him. It was a striking scene 
this great circle of sportsmen, beaters, mahouts and elephants, waiting in 
silence while the measuring was done. The tiger taped 9 feet but he was a 
royal beast and looked splendid when I saw him later stretched out for the 
Prince's inspection near the great log fire in the Royal Camp. In the evening 
we had news of three more tigers having been shot by another party who had 
gone farther afield. There appears to have been much excitement, and no 
little risk, experienced on the occasion, as several of the party were filled more 
with zeal than with experience of tiger shooting, guns were pointed in all 
directions and the poor tigers eventually succumbed to a perfect fusilade of 
bullets. One of the members of the party contributes the following descrip- 
tion of the exciting episode : 
“ The tigress came out straight towards my elephant, but turned very 
quickly to its own right, and I fired just as it turned back into the jungle. I 
hit it on the near quarter, and broke its hind leg with the first barrel. The 
second barrel I fired as it was disappearing in the jungle and from what we 
