Tiger-Hunting in Mysore, South India. 1905.

For Saleis a Full Page removed from "The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News," July 22nd,1905, showing a Drawing by R. Caton Woodville for "Tiger-Hunting in Mysore, South India."

In the thickly-wooded parts of Mysore, tiger-killing is carried on by enclosing a "Kill" (i.e., animal, mostly cattle killed by a tiger)  with a strong net made of cocoa-nut fibre, from 10 to 12 feet wide and perhaps four hundred yards long.  The net is placed on the ground encircling the dead animal and covered with branches of trees and bamboos, and when the tiger is reported as having returned at night to the "Kill," it is raised simltaneously by hundreds of villagers and kept upright by props, and thus "stripes" is caught.  Then invitations are sent out to native nobles and Eutopeans for a day or two later, and a number of machants (stands) are erected in a sort of avenue in some open spot;  the jungle is cleared around the net, and with rockets, noise, .the tiger is driven out through an opening made in it, and has to run the file fire of the shooters, but, if lucky, may live to fight another day.

Condition is Very Good.