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THE KILL!
The tiger is the most dreaded creature of the Indian jungle and a tiger hunt, therefore, assumes not merely the aspect of a sport, but a public benefaction. The principal food of "Stripes," as the great jungle cat of India is called, is cattle, deer, wild hog, and peafowl. Old tigers, whose vigor is on the wane and whose teeth are defective, find man an easier victim than fellow-dwellers in the wild; so it is these wily creatures who wreak the greatest destruction among the natives.Photograph by Bernard Watkins, National Geographic

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BEATERS GATHERING AROUND A MACHAN AFTER THE DRIVE
There were more than 600 men in this particular beat of the Surguja hunt.

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A TROPHY OF THE HUNT: A TIGER KILLED BY THE MAHARAJA OF GWALIOR
Tradition credits the founding of the native state of Gwalior, in northern India, to Suraj Sen, a leper, who, while hunting, came to the hill on which the fort of Gwalior now stands. Receiving a drink of water from a hermit, his leprosy is supposed to have been cured. Eighty-four of Suraj Sen's descendants ruled Gwalior before the line came to an end.

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MRS. MITCHELL'S FIRST TIGRESS, SHOT NEAR SRINAGAR
This animal, after being mortally wounded with the first shot, charged right up to the machan.

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THE PRIME MINISTER OF SURGUJA WITH SOME OF THE AUTHOR'S TROPHIES
Here are the third and fourth tigers of the hunt, two black buck, and four horned deer. The tiger skin which is being displayed has no hole in it, as the bullet pierced the eye.Photograph by Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, National Geographic

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