How Man-eating Tigers are Manufactured.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 470, 10 May 1890, Page 5

How Man-eating Tigers are Manufactured.

There is a man-eating tiger abroad now in the Central Provinces, says a recent number of the Allahabod ‘Pioneer,’ which last month had the temerity to attack the Chief Commissioner’s advance camp and carry o ff a cook. This animal is still killing at the rate of about two persons a week, and a reward of 200 rupees is on its head. Nob far off a man-eating tigress has just been Both these animals are believed to have been converted into man-eaters by bullet-wounds from the native matchlock—fresh instances of the mischief that shot over a human * kill ’ at Jthe feet of the Satpura hills in the Balaghat district. iB done by the present system of rewards. A reward of 50 rupees is enough to induce any villager to try his luck at a pot shot, with the frequent result of converting a comparatively harmless animal into a scourge of the country side. Whereas if the “reward were removed the shooting would be left to the professional hunters, who would still find abundant inducement in the value of the skins, would get from the villagers in cases where a tiger had become troublesome by his attacks upon cattle.