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Title: Sport on the Nilgiris and in Wynaad
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fletcher, F. W. F
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ft. in. ft. in. Length... ... 4 Ili 4 II Length outside gum ... 2 loj 2 9 Circumference at gum ... I 3 I 3 Weight ... 36Ubs. 34 lbs. Many a time and oft since that memorable day haveI crept up to a tusker, and carefully described on hismassive head all the angles and mathematical figuresthe books tell us the elephant hunter must mark, learn,and inwardly digest. Into each with equal care I haveplaced a bullet, but—I never drew trigger. Gratitudeis a trait that bulks largely in the elephantine character,and some day, surely, and somewhere, I shall reap thejust reward of my forbearance ! THE TIGER Scientific name.—Felis tigris. Tamil name.—Piili (colloquially pillee) Kanarese name.—Hiili. Kurumba name.—Hiili. Nayaka name.—Hiili. Note.—The Kanarese, as well as the local tribes—Nayakas,Kurumbas, and Paniyans—usually refer to the tiger by thecontemptuous name of nari (jackal). But it is superstitious fear,not contempt, that prompts them to use this undignified appellation.
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THE TIGER Tiger, tiger, burning bright.In the forests of the night.What immortal hand or eyeFramed thy fearful symmetry ? —Blake. In this part of South India, as apparently over thewhole Peninsula, tigers can be broadly divided intotwo classes. First there is the cattle-lifter—always alarge, heavy, handsome tiger—who has a well-markedbeat round a particular line of country, where he is onmore or less intimate terms with the villagers ; andwho takes life easily—in two senses, levying a constanttribute on the village herds. And next there is thegame-killer, a small and wiry tiger compared to hiscousin with the predilection for beef He shuns thevicinity of man, and has his retreat in the forestswhere deer, his chief food, find a sanctuary. Fromthis distinction it must not be inferred that the game-killer would not kill a cow if he got the chance, or thecattle-thief a deer : I merely discriminate betweentigers who haunt the neighbourhood of villages andthose who prefer a domain fa

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