Some are forced to go against their will; for when the order comes, to the head man of the village, that the sultan requires so many soldiers, he is forced to pick out those best fitted for service.

Others go of their own free will, thinking soldiering easier work than tilling the fields, besides the chance of getting rich booty.

So there are but few shikarees, and the tigers multiply and are a curse to us.
"We are but poor people, but if you choose to stay here for a time, we will pay something for every tiger you kill; and we will send round to the other villages, within ten miles, and doubtless every one of them will contribute, so that you might get enough to pay you for your exertions." "We will think of it," Surajah replied.

"We did not intend to stop in one village, but proposed to travel about in the jungle-covered district; and wherever we hear complaints of a tiger committing depredations, we will stop and do our best to kill the evil beast.

We mean, first, to find out where they are most troublesome, and then we shall work back again.