Archive image from page 43 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 20 DIARY OF A SPORTSMAN NATURALIST having heard all there was to hear, the news having spread to the village in the mysterious manner it does in the East. There was still nearly an hour of daylight, so I told him to raise as many men as he could at once, and if enough were forth- coming we would go and see if we could find the three beasts said to have been killed. I had a hasty cup of tea and then set off, all my available staff of servants, save the coo
Archive image from page 43 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 20 DIARY OF A SPORTSMAN NATURALIST having heard all there was to hear, the news having spread to the village in the mysterious manner it does in the East. There was still nearly an hour of daylight, so I told him to raise as many men as he could at once, and if enough were forth- coming we would go and see if we could find the three beasts said to have been killed. I had a hasty cup of tea and then set off, all my available staff of servants, save the cook, whom I refused permission to come in deference to my dinner, accom- panying us. We must'- have presented an extraordinary and incon- gruous sight as we set forth, and the noise was deafening as none of the men wished to meet the tiger. And to be perfectly truthful I do not think I did myself with that rabble. Sure enough we found three dead cows all struck down within the space of twenty yards. A great argument took place as to whether there had been one or two tigers, and I inclined to the side of the party who maintained that there was a large and a small one—probably a tigress and her part-grown youngster—giving him lessons in the art of how to kill. There was no trace of the tigers now, how- ever, the cattle having effectually frightened them off after the killing had been done, and our noise had probably caused them to leave the locality altogether. I selected a tree and had a machan built at once, as I thought it would be a certainty for me this time. But although I sat up over the kills for two nights and early afternoons into the bargain the tigers never came back, and presumably had to be content with wild game on that occasion. I have often thought, however, that had I possessed a little more experience and had we not gone to seek the stricken cows with such a horde that I might have had a soft thing in tigers early in my career. I had curious luck altogether w
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