CHAPTER XIX.

The tiger's mode of attack.--The food he prefers.--Varieties of prey. --Examples.--What he eats first.--How to tell the kill of a tiger. --Appetite fierce.--Tiger choked by a bone.--Two varieties of tiger. --The royal Bengal.--Description.--The hill tiger.--His description. --The two compared.--Length of the tiger.--How to measure tigers. --Measurements.--Comparison between male and female.--Number of young at a birth.--The young cubs.--Mother teaching cubs to kill. --Education and progress of the young tiger.--Wariness and cunning of the tiger.--Hunting incidents shewing their powers of concealment. --Tigers taking to water.--Examples.--Swimming powers.--Caught by floods.--Story of the Soonderbund tigers.