Archive image from page 46 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 out, however, ) '/if- . as the moon, iTji/-]/- ''u/J which hsLd''' {fp— —ZST ' been brilhant, became overcast with rain-clouds, most unusual at that time of the year, and I could not see even the outHne of the kill, much less the tiger on it. It is a curious and uncanny feeling which invades one on such occasions. The tiger, on first interviews at any rate, like the snake, exercises a weird mesmerism over the senses. I felt this to the full as that beast lay
Archive image from page 46 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 out, however, ) '/if- . as the moon, iTji/-]/- ''u/J which hsLd''' {fp— —ZST ' been brilhant, became overcast with rain-clouds, most unusual at that time of the year, and I could not see even the outHne of the kill, much less the tiger on it. It is a curious and uncanny feeling which invades one on such occasions. The tiger, on first interviews at any rate, like the snake, exercises a weird mesmerism over the senses. I felt this to the full as that beast lay there below me crushing and cracking up the bones of the kill with his powerful jaws and making all the sounds, though greatly intensified, produced by a cat eating its food. At length, out of patience, I fired in the direction of the sounds. A startled roar from below and I heard two slight sounds as of an animal making off very lightly, and then silence. Immediately after pulling the trigger I bitterly regretted the action, and I spent the rest of the night in a most agonized state hoping against hope that I had made a
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