American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . forming a triumphalprocession amid a turmoil such as only Indianbeaters can make, they carried the dead tiger tocamp. One morning word was brought to our camp,at a place called Bernara, that a tiger hadkilled a buffalo, some seven miles away. Thenatives had built a bamboo platform, calledmachan, in a tree by the kill, and we stationedourselves on this in the late afternoon. Con-trary to custom, the tiger did not come back kill until after the sun had set. The nightwas cloudy and very dark, and although severaltim
American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . forming a triumphalprocession amid a turmoil such as only Indianbeaters can make, they carried the dead tiger tocamp. One morning word was brought to our camp,at a place called Bernara, that a tiger hadkilled a buffalo, some seven miles away. Thenatives had built a bamboo platform, calledmachan, in a tree by the kill, and we stationedourselves on this in the late afternoon. Con-trary to custom, the tiger did not come back kill until after the sun had set. The nightwas cloudy and very dark, and although severaltimes we distinctly heard the tiger eating the buf-falo, we could not see it. At about midnight wewere extremely stiff, and not hearing any sound,we returned to our temporary camp; but on theadvice of an old shikari I returned with him tothe machan to wait until daylight. Being tired,I fell asleep, but an hour before dawn the Hinduwoke me, as the clouds had cleared away and themoon was shining brightly. I heard a munchingsound, and could dimly discern a yellow form by 440. Two Trophies from India the buffalo, and taking a long aim I fired bothbarrels of my rifle. I heard nothing except thescuttling off of the hyenas and jackals that had beenattracted by the dead buffalo, so I slept again untildaylight, when, to my surprise, I saw a deadleopard by the buffalo. He had come to the killafter the tiger had finished his meal. John H. Prentice. 4*1 Big-Game Refuges Since the inception of the Boone and CrockettClub its plans and purposes have changed not a organized for social purposes, for theencouragement of big-game hunting, and the pro-curing of the most effective weapons with which tosecure the game, it has, little by little, come to bedevoted to the broader object of benefiting this andsucceeding generations by preserving a stock of largegame. It is still made up of enthusiastic riflemen,and their love of the chase has not abated. But, sincethe Clubs formation, an
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