Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore.

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore.

Illustration of risk of sitting on the ground.

Caution should be exercised when approaching a tiger supposed to
    be dead.

Another illustration of the risk of sitting on the ground.

Illustration of the importance of sitting motionless when obliged
    to sit on the ground.

An exciting rush after a wounded tiger.

Coolness and courage exhibited by a native.

Estimate of danger of tiger shooting on foot.  Should not be
    pursued by those whoso lives are of cash value to their families.

People killed by wounded tigers.  Difficulty of seeing a tiger in
    the jungle.

Distinguishing sight of natives superior to that of Europeans.

Tigers easily recover from wounds.

Effects on the nerves and heart from the roar of a wounded tiger.

Precautions that should be exercised by sportsmen with damaged
    hearts.

The lame tiger.  Met in the road at night.

Tying out live baits for tigers.

Interesting instance of tiger stalking up to a live bait.

Another illustration of risk of approaching a tiger apparently
    dead.

Importance of using a chain when tying out a bait.  Sport spoiled
    from a chain not being used.

Tigers eat tigers sometimes.  Illustration of this.

The tiger’s power of ascending trees.

Interesting instance of a jackal warning tigers of danger.

Tiger put to flight by the rearing of a horse.

Effect on a tiger of the human voice.  Tigers often undecided how
    to act.

Tigers form plans and act in concert.  Illustration of this.

Tigers of Western Ghaut forests, if unmolested, rarely dangerous
    to man.

Very dangerous man-eating tigers have existed in the interior of
    Mysore.  Man-eaters enter villages.  A tiger tearing off the thatch
    of a hut.

Great courage and determination shown by natives in connection
    with tigers.  Illustrations of this.

The life of a planter saved by a dog attacking the tiger.

Interesting behaviour of the dog after Mr. A. was wounded.

Treatment of wounds from tigers.  A native recovers from thirteen
    lacerated wounds and two on the head.

A mad tiger.  Position of body that should be adopted when waiting
    for a tiger.  Importance of this.

Tiger purring with evident satisfaction after having killed a
    man.

CHAPTER V.—­BEARS, PANTHERS, JUNGLE DOGS, SNAKES, JUNGLE PETS.

Bear has two cubs at a time.  Bears rapidly decreasing.  Said by
    natives to be killed and eaten by tigers.  Instances of tigers
    killing bears.

Bears dreaded by natives more than any animal in the jungle. 
    Probable cause of their often attacking people.  Illustration of
    this.

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