...mail-bag being carried off by wild beasts." So great was the damage done by these depredations, 199 that "the company offered a reward for each tiger's head,...for prisoners were the sole exceptions to the rule." Still more formidable foes were found in the herds of wild elephants, which came trooping along in...

...mail-bag being carried off by wild beasts." So great was the damage done by these depredations, that "the company offered a reward for each tiger's head,...expenditure it deemed so necessary, that, when under extraordinaiy pressure it had to suspend all payments, the tiger-money and diet allowance for prisoners...

...mail-bag being carried off by wild beasts." So great \vas the damage done by these depredations, that "the company offered a reward for each tiger's head,...three months ; an item of expenditure it deemed so rfecessary, that, when under extraordinary pressure it had to suspend all payments, the tiger-money...

...to the centre of a district, the wild beasts pressed hungrily in their rear. In vain the East India Company offered a reward for each tiger's head sufficient...maintain a peasant's family in comfort for three months ; in vain it spent the whole land revenue of a frontier district in rewards for killing wild beasts....

...towards the centre of a district, the wild beasts pressed hungrily on their rear. In vain the East India Company offered a reward for each tiger's head sufficient...family in comfort for three months — an item of outlay which our officers deemed so important, that when, in the financial crisis of 1790-91, the Treasury...

...multitudinous companies. Tigers are now very much rarer to meet with than they once were, when Government offered a reward for each tiger's head sufficient...maintain a peasant's family in comfort for three months. All this is now changed, and it is a frequent complaint that one can so seldom get a shot at a tiger....

...multitudinous companies. Tigers are now very much rarer to meet with than they once were, when Government offered a reward for each tiger's head sufficient...maintain a peasant's family in comfort for three months. All this is now changed, and it is a frequent complaint that one can so seldom get a shot at a tiger....

...mail-bag being carried off by wild beasts." So great was the damage done by these depredations, that " the company offered a reward for each tiger's head,...for prisoners were the sole exceptions to the rule." 260 Still more formidable foes were found in the herds of wild elephants, which came trooping along...

...towards the centre of a district, the wild beasts pressed hungrily on their rear. In vain the East India Company offered a reward for each tiger's head sufficient...family in comfort for three months — an item of outlay which our officers deemed so important that when, in the financial crisis of 1790-91, the Treasury...

...hamlets, and drew together towards the centre of the district, the wild beasts pressed hungrily in their rear. In vain the Company offered a reward for...for prisoners were the sole exceptions to the rule. A belt of jungle, filled with wild beasts, formed round each village ; the official records frequently...