In tying out baits it is very important to use a chain instead of a rope, as the tiger will commonly cut the latter and carry off the carcase, and it is sometimes desirable, or even necessary in some cases, to sit over the carcase and await the return of the tiger.  The latter is always the case where there are great continuous forests, where tigers cannot be isolated, or successfully pursued, unless one has an army of men and many guns.  This form of sport, which Mr. Sanderson speaks highly of, I can imagine may be very interesting, but it is also very tiresome and tantalizing.  A great many years ago I remember trying it for two nights, but without any success, and never again tried it till some years ago, when I made an attempt in one of the forests at the foot of one of the passes leading down to Mangalore.  My people had no experience in the matter either, still we might have been successful had the carcase been chained.  I took down a small herd of cattle from my plantations, and ordered some baits to be tied one evening, and early the following morning went round to look at them.  In the first case we found that the rope had been cut and the bullock carried off and deposited in a depression in the ground about fifty yards away.  The carcase was untouched.  In the next case we found that the rope, which was a very strong jungle creeper as thick as a large-sized rope, had not been cut, but that the animal had been killed, and merely a few steaks as it were eaten from the rump.  In the third case we found that the bullock, which had evidently been the first one seized, was about half eaten.  In the fourth case the bullock, which was an old one, had not been touched.  I think my people made a great mistake in tying out so many cattle so close together—­they were not one hundred yards apart—­still this certainly made matters more sure from one point of view, as a tiger crossing the country might have missed one bait, whereas he could hardly have missed four, but his having killed three baits made our proceedings a little mixed.  I first ordered the surviving bullock to be taken home, and two of the carcases to be dragged away to a considerable distance, and resolved to sit over kill number two, as it was the best animal, and in the most convenient position, but unfortunately I ordered two of my people to take a seat on a tree near the place where number one had been killed and carried off, and the tiger, which went there first, looked up and saw them and growled.  His suspicions of course were aroused, and the result was that he did not come at all to the kill I was sitting over—­at least while I was there.  After it was too dark to see to shoot I went home, and returned the following morning, when I found that the tiger had returned, cut the rope, and carried off the bullock to a distance of about two hundred yards, and eaten a good deal of it.  I organized a small silent beat of a section of the forest, but nothing came of it.  My head man then resolved to prepare a watching