people attempting to do this with a tiger.
- Mikhail Ivanovich Yankovsky (Jankowski) was also an amateur
naturalist who discovered many species of Far Eastern bird, beetle, and
butterfly, some of which bear his name to this day, and many more of
which he sold to European museums and collectors. His son, Yuri, made a
name for himself as a tiger hunter and published two memoirs, including
Fifty Years of Tiger Hunting (in Russian, 1944). - “Sixty-five tigers were said to have been killed in the [Vladivostok]
district the year before my arrival,” wrote the British evangelist and
traveler Henry Landsdell in 1879.^10
- As some Asian hunters did and do.