But tigers double their whole length, and they object to it.

To every creature its own proper treatment.' But there was no doubt of the sincerity of our instructors, nor of their eagerness to be of use to us in any way.

Next morning, when we started out, the headman came with us some distance, on purpose to instruct the guide he had assigned to us, a stupid-looking youth, who seemed afraid.

He told him: 'Try first over there among the boulders, and when you have exhausted that resort, go down to the ravine, and thence beat upwards to the mountain-top.

Please God, your Honours will return with half a hundred of those tigers which devour our crops.' Thus sped with hope, we set out in good spirits, expecting not a bag of fifty tigers, to speak truly, but the final settlement of a dispute which had long raged among us, as to what those famous tigers really were.