Coming to 1909, there is an episode in his _Shikar-Book_ about a
tigress, which for various reasons may be transcribed:--
"... 14th April.--I started up to inspect the Banbwebin fire line ...
accompanied by my wife ... an Indian and two Burmans.... After we had
gone about five miles up the ... path, ... we heard bamboos being
broken. The Burmans said there must be a herd of wild elephants
feeding on the flowered bamboos. I thought they might possibly be
bison or a rhinoceros, so walked on to see what they really were. The
Indian was walking ahead of me, and I was following, looking down the
side of the hill from which the sound of the bamboos being broken
came, when Barhan, the Indian peon, stopped and said 'Bag' (tiger). I
looked up and saw the tiger crossing the path about sixty paces ahead
of me, so ... had a quick shot at it. On which it turned round and
came down the hill straight at me.... My wife, who was just behind me,
on seeing it come down the hill, called out, 'It is coming.' ... It
came on, and when less than thirty paces from me I fired the second
barrel and knocked it over. After receiving the shot it fell and lay
on the ground, trying to drag itself towards us.... It put its head up
and snarled and showed its teeth.... The Burmans, who were very
excited, kept on saying, 'Give it another shot quick, or it will get
up and do for us.' So after a bit I put in another cartridge and
walked up a few paces and gave it a bullet in the chest and finished
it off.
"After giving it a shot in the chest I walked round and got above it,
and then approached cautiously with my gun at the ready to give it
another shot if necessary; but after throwing a clod or two of earth
at it, and finding that it did not move, I walked up and pulled its
tail, and when I found that it was dead I called out to my wife, who
was close by all the time, and she came up.
"We found it to be a tigress ... measuring eight feet and five inches
as she lay.... The first shot had missed and the second ... caught her
at the point of the shoulder. On looking at my gun, I found that the
200 yards leaf sight had got pushed up, and that made me shoot high. I
was carrying the gun in my right hand, but holding it across my back,
and in pulling it forward in a hurry, the leaf sight had got pushed
up, and I did not notice it in the excitement of the moment....
"Maung Nita, one of the Burmans who was with me, said, 'Sir, if you
had not finished her with the second shot we would all have been lying
kicking on the ground.'
"As three men were not able to lift her, my wife rode back to our camp
and called other eight men, and they slung her on poles and carried
her into camp.
"On dissecting the tigress, I found that she had nothing in her
stomach and appeared to have had no food for some time. She was
evidently out shikaring (hunting), and was after the animals that I
heard breaking bamboos." ...