Thanks William Iorg for the Handbook for Overland Expeditions. It should be interesting reading. Here is a short article on tiger hunting in India full of adventure with drawings of the tiger hunts. From Frank Lesley's Popular Monthly #45 1879


http://books.google.com/books?id=9YzQAAAAMAAJ&dq=elephant%20tiger&lr=&as_brr=1&pg=PA405#v=onepage&q=elephant%20tiger&f=false


And a nice original Howdah pistol from ctmuzzleloaders site...

http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/antique_guns/purdey_howdah/howdah.html

A classic book on the subject of animal behaviour from the eye of a famous English hunter in India....

Wild Beasts and Their Ways -by Sir Samuel White Baker is available in full view at google books. He advocated the use of very large bore muzzleloading rifles and roundballs for very large game like elephants early on before breechloaders came into common use. These used absurd powder charges and were dangerous to shoot but it was what was needed at the time.

It is an interesting book.

Sir Sam would chase behind an elephant scooping black powder from an open bag and pouring handfuls of it down the barrel, when he fired the rifle it would sometimes knock him to the ground.
He used mercury to harden his bullets to enhance penetration.

The story of Sam running a stag to ground in England and killing it with a knife in front of witnesses is priceless.