Suppose the Duke of Sutherland were to go down to
Ratcliffe Highway, buy the two dozen or so of tigers and panthers Mr. Ja.mrach has always on hand, and let them loose in Sutherland- shire, could he live in the county ? We imagine not, yet it is quite clear, from a letter in the Times, that there is some one in England who would do it if he had the power. He objects entirely to the destruction of tigers in India, because the people they kill always owe their deaths to their own carelessness. He knows that three years ago at Sconce, a place on the great road between Nagpore and Jubbulpore, a man-eating tigress killed 50 people, yet he deprecates a battue of tigers as the destruction of honest sport, and a measure "which would indeed render India tame." Fifty natives are, in fact, to be eaten—a horribly slow process, sometimes lasting days—in order that one, Englishmen may have one enjoyable shot, and boast ever after that he has killed a tiger! The Duke of Argyle is said to have sent out a despatch about the matter, but if he only prohibited tiger hunting by civilians tigers would be extinct in a year. The nearest native doctor would very soon settle that question.
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