They're uncomfortable, anyhow.

It's a long way to fall, if the saddle goes round; and next time one might not find a tiger handy, to light on." Two more tigers were killed that afternoon and, well pleased with his day's sport, Charlie returned to the hunting camp.
The next day, Hossein begged that he might be allowed to accompany Charlie in Tim's place; and as the Irishman was perfectly willing to surrender it, the change was agreed upon.

The march was a longer one than it had been, on the previous morning.

A notorious man-eating tiger was known to have taken up his abode, in a large patch of jungle, at the foot of an almost perpendicular wall of rock, about ten miles from the place where the camp was pitched.

The patch of jungle stood upon a steep terrace, whose slopes were formed of boulders, the patch being some fifty or sixty yards long and thirty deep.
"It is a nasty place," Ramajee Punt said, "to get him from.