Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow The people of the village, numbering some fifty men, women and children were in the abject terror, and though the sun was still up when I arrived, I found the entire population inside their homes behind locked doors, and it was not until my men had made fire in the country and I was sitting down to a cup of tea that door here and there cautiously opened, and frightened inmates emerged. I was informed that for five days, no one has gone beyond their own doorsteps- the insanitary condition of the courtyard to the truth of this statement– that food was running short, and that the people would starve if the tiger was not killed or driven Away. That the tiger was still in the vicinity was apparent. For three nights it had been heard calling on the road, distant a hundred yards from the houses, and that very day it had been seen on the cultivated land at the lower end of the village. The headman of the village willingly placed a room at my disposal, but as there were right to us share it, and the only door it possessed opened on to the insanitary Courtyard. I refused to spend the night in the open. After a scratch meal which had to do duty for dinner, I saw my men safely shut into the room and myself took up a position on the side of the road, with my back to a tree. The villagers said the tiger was in the habit of perambulating along this road, and as the moon was at full I thought there was a chance of my getting a shot provided I saw it first. I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me, and bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater’s mercy. I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night. As the grey dawn was lighting up the snowy range which I was facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees, and it was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything. Which of the following statements does NOT hold good as per the passage?