The Royal Tiger of Bengal: His Life and Death

Pr. Fayrer is known to be a keen and successful pursuer of '? large game," and his sporting instincts come to the surface when he writes, " far be it from me to suggest ought that might appear to involve danger to human life, but I must say that I should regard the complete extinction of tigers with a regret something akin to that, with which annihilation of the fox would be regarded in England," He adds, however, " I certainly would not preserve tigers, and would encourage their destruction?but by hunting rather than by poison or the