H. R. H. THE PEIXCE OF WALES’ SHOOTS. 
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In about three quarters of an hour the party reached the spot where the 
tiger was surrounded, the ring being a fairly large one and the jungle in the 
middle unusually thick. The tiger, or tigress as she turned out to be, 
gave very good sport and was finally bagged by Captain the Hon’ble Piers 
Legh, who d ropped her with a very fine running shot clean through the heart. 
Information was then brought that there was another tiger not far off, 
which there was a chance of ringing if people liked to hurry out, but as it was 
getting late and the chances were not very great of reaching the spot in time. 
His Royal Highness and Col. O’Connor returned to the camp. The remainder, 
however, went on, on the off chance and after they had plunged into inordin- 
ately heavy jungle for the space of a further half hour, came to the spot where 
the Shikari said the tiger should be, and started trying to ring him. Captain 
Villiers thus describes what happened : — 
“ I suddenly saw a tigress cantering quite slowly diagonally across 
towards rrry elephant and after waiting till she was within easy range I fired 
and got her through the shoulder dropping her immediately, but not killing 
her outright since the shot just missed the heart ; I finally des]iatched her with 
a second shot. I was shooting with a 22 bore double-barrelled rifle made by 
Messrs. Manton & Co., which, I nray mention, is without any exception the 
nicest weapon I have ever handled ; it comes up to the shoulder just like a 
well fitting 12 bore and it was interesting to see how effectually this extremely 
small bore, but very high velocity weapon stopped the tigress. She proved 
to be a tigress measuring 8 ft. arrd was in excellent condition.” 
Judging from the trophies received at the skinning camp, this day, Monday, 
December 19th, provided the most successful sport. 
In addition to the rhino bagged by H. R. H. and the one shot by iMr. Landon 
a third rhino was accounted for by Commander- Newport. The Earl of Cromer 
shot a fine tiger, the largest obtained in Nejral, during the Prince’s shikar taping 
9' 10", arrd a leopard- All this meant a considerable amount of work for my 
men, but it is to be recorded that they carried it through with the utmost 
zeal and fervour. 
December 20th. — H. R. H. did not go out in the morning but remained in 
camp till after lunch when he rode out with Sir Godfrey Thomas and a few 
others into British Territory where he shot small game. 
Lord Louis Mount batten and Col. Worgan motored to the 22nd milestone at 
Dhoba where a rhino was shot by the latter. They then joined up -with Col. 
Harvey, Col. O’Kinoaly and Capt. the Hon’ble Piers Legh and went to a tiger 
ring which proved to be blank. Later a ring was made for panther and pro- 
rided an exciting evening. On the elephants beating the ring a bear was found 
who caused a great deal of amusement charging round the ring and giving 
every one a chance of a shot. The shooting appears to have been 
“ promiscuous, ” but it is to be recorded that the bear eventually 
succumbed. After the firing subsided the presence of the panther became 
a matter of doubt as he had not put in an appearance diming the 
tremendous bombardment of Bruin, but on the ring closing up they flushed 
him, and he charged straight through the elephants and broke the ring. He 
was hit by Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency but was not deterred in his charge, 
and went straight through. The ring reformed rather raggedly, and the panther 
again broke through springing on an elephant’s trunk. He was dislodged 
but it was too dark to continue that evening and was shot the next day 
and proved to be a fine animal taping 7' 6". 
Lord Cromer and the Hon’ble Bruce Ogilvy each accounted for a rhino in the 
course of the day and Capt. Poynder bagged a bear just outside the Royal Camp. 
December 2\st . — This was the last day of the Nepal shoot. H. R. H. rode 
out after lunch with Col. O’Connor, the British Envoy, Sir Godfrey Thomas 
and others. 
