THE STORY OF THE TIGER. 
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tricts. According to- the Government returns, it appears that within a period 
of six years no less than 4,218 natives fell victims to tigers, while in the 
Central Provinces alone 285 were killed during the years 1898 and 1899. In 
regard to the ravages committed by individual man-eaters, one tiger in 1897, 
1898, 1899, killed respectively twenty-seven, thirty-four and forty-seven people. 
I have known it to attack a party, and kill four or five at a time. Once it killed 
a father, mother and three children; and the week before it was shot it killed 
seven people. It wandered over a tract of twenty miles, never remaining in 
the same spot two' consecutive days, and was at last killed by a bullet from a 
PHOTOGRAPH OF YOUNG TIGERS SHOT BY MR. SEYMOUR. 
spring-gun when returning to feed on the body of one of its victims. The 
account of the depredations of another man-eater, which infested the neigh¬ 
borhood of a station in the Eastern Himalaya, states that the animal '‘prowled 
about within a circle, say of twenty miles, and that it killed on an average about 
eighty men per annum.” 
It has been considered that man-eating tigers, which generally belong to the 
female sex, were invariably animals unable to procure other food, from the 
effects of age. Although this is true in a very large number of instances, it 
