The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

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or in Nal Erotteggis, venters of in swell powder
and having pot our bedding and provision/ Ist wit node
mil up the river. We had • fair ',had. en it lola
reached the mouth of the stream, up whir we Weft is
eet our water. It was quite a little river estridall. II
from the northward and reran, and in we
into it we could fed Net it wee cooler and sweeter Or
the dirty water of the Hooghley. About fear rim Op
we can.. to the mop, where re native weer garden Mr
bran, urn/ groped, eel bre we ems to end
owl* fast. Some forty or fifty feet beck from the bask
or, rho edge of • thick, der jangle, there wee • uprise
which sent out water enough I. early quite • IMMO.
It WAS at this spring we meant to get -our water, sad in
soon as ell was ready, we see our natives at work esetr
ing the buckets to rid from the lighter, we allies the.
et the spring. As we Ave could 111 much fester ron
the porter" could carry, and alit wan not in re sersell
that we should lug water under the hot sr, Tom Chen
end II tithe other three idling, while we west he explore
the jungle but we did nor go • great way. Tio mode
were .o thick and stoat that we weld with
mike e •
whereoe Rm%
ay ezti ngo them,f path and, ,
ainretri
While we were in there the rests sonde some mirk
sort Um tiger. The very sound of the easseter's seem
was rough to make me tremble. When we rebanird.
we asked the natives II MOO 'cow "If
men about that neighbourhood? They add died
had Dover sees or, though there had been trate
found upon the edge of the series, whisk woe
supposed to have berm made by the tiger. The eldest
of the Indian., and the owe who bird all the edam%
said that he had hemp eel/aged is work that willed him
to this sprier more Of l's., for after years, but lo led
never WM anything that looked like the aminol in
question. Most of the people of this rugary her •
mistaken ides of Mr. Tiger. The few arrow whir
have bees serried round to show, are gels emelt She
Use real fret tiger of Bengal. There are, esrleinly,
three differer sorts of tiger and try very ill Is., se
well es is colour. The artier kind ban, the er
general charseteristr, and ore adored dr the rase
ratters as the larger ease, but the odours ise nee se
bright. The royal tiger hr • yellow groan Is his
skin, and thee the stripes are • beautiful black, make
over the heck, and down the skies, shout in lbs WWI 1110
the rite. But it is with regard to re she of the
animal that there is the most miehre. Whoa I tell
a men that I have seen • tree ten feet kir healthier/
to the end of the look, and than lee feet of tad sided
to that, making filter feet In all, he doe% win to
believe me. But it is so. The royal tiger re bees
known to carry off • foll-sissd buffalo I An old Hines
merchant, an honorable man, sad or who small boos
no earthly reason for deriving one, reared me thod
his men killed • tiger is one of the deep junkie et do
Berrecoor, whose body alonewsethirtese feet lakes* I
I might have hesitated about believing this bed I nee
seen one myself nearly twice se large as I
ever grew. You Gan imagine something ortLPsaidelrenU
of such an animal. It is very fortaere thetp=selg:
scarce, for their destroctiveoess is bored al
They kill for the mere sake of kin*. Let oar mks
hi, way among • herd of cattle, rah* will kill withint
eating • morsel, while there is • living enrol to he
seen. While they can get blood they will mot INN
flesh. They do ant eat to appease their h=r
they eat to gorge themselves; they will
blood while they can stead. It ie said by thorned=
best understand their habits, that they love herr
flesh more than anything eir, and will leave the Yen
of any animal for • men. Bur taste uthal,tbougbli
may flatter homenity, I moat say I fail to Idris eg
appreciate. When night same we heeled our iighleg
into the middle of the stresm, and ohms tamed in.
When we awoke in the morning one of the turves end
he had heard • low bowling noise daring the siert, sel
far off. At one time he thought it was a tiger, end MI
on the point of arousing us ; but as he Wren WWI
attentively it sounded nearer, like Use yelping of • dia,
and be concluded to let us sleep. As roe as we hen
eaten our breakfast we hauled our,. lighter to the elms
and commenced work. The sun bad got Met ssb
to throw down an uncomfortable beat when I
beard • crashing in • distant part of the jungle, and to
• few moment." more on. of the native. started the
cry. The tiger I the tiger In all the various reads el
mirth I doubt if there la another which can strike aseh
terror to the souls of the natives of that country as
does that cry. No wooer did it break upon the dr
than the on of the Indians took it op, and at the some
time, rushed for the lighter. They had jut pined
it, and we, who stood beneath the 11Wninj old& bed
bun spread over the liming, were about to follow,
when • low, der cry, like theater, of a eel a thousand
these multiplied in volume and depth, broke apse ear
ere, end the next instant • dark object same with asset
of blorring sena ition before our eyee. Western bask,
and as soon as I could fsirly look I sew • lane Nem
crouching upon the hard sand, about half-way berms
no and the boats He was geeing upon the mama
They knew his habits well enough not to run say
further then. They had gained the bows of the SOW
only when the tiger treed from the jungle, and the
ruddy, or little cabin, was in the after-pert They
knew if they turned to reit that place the inoastst
would leap upon them, so they stood in • body aged
faced him, while be lay in • oriniebing posture, will
his toil lashing the wind, and his claws gathering fer•
spring. We had taken our MIS up with an to re
apnea, for the report of the native who had berg
the noise in the eight, erred to pat us on our
The pieces were common heavy muskets, and wo leaded
the,, with two ballets each. We seised them se
quickly as prible, but tree was • dillonlry to
the way of our aving. The tiger was directly herrn
on and the native,! The place where we rod was
some feet higher than the rola and the place where
the monster eas ernumnod in.. in •Annan fir with she
bowl' of the boat. A bell poising through his body
from or of our guns woodd, if kept on in a straighe
line, strike the natives at Use breast It was WET
evident that no time was to be lest, aid yet our bon
ociu.se wee not so eerily decided. However, we were
just on the point of Irving around so into bring the
tiger out from that fatal range, when I noticed rel, the
notices were not only itinversisig eagerly, but Wenn des
changing their position. I saw that they were up to
Some plot, but what it was I could not tell, Tbitsar
how we were situated with regard to firing, sod
they seemed to her studied for theniselees. Presently,
one of them spoke to us, "Tli• tiger memo for leap ei
us. He looks fret if we rot swords and gnu lb
find no—he sap, when you see him on boat, you Mee
Fire at him,"— The Indian probably mean to tell as
where to aim, but at that isomer a georearal I.
another quarter arrested his attention. They had ear
pined • position to suit, and then watched the SSW
with the most inters eagerness. I saw the aroneterla
four legs move—l saw the claws upon the seed, and then
, lame that peculiar gathering of the body which shows
that the muscular power is all egmerentritel.
On the next instant the huge body left the earth, sad
as it Aid so the six natives disappeared,,. if by magic.
' They had dropped down into the spaces bottoms the
easks, doubling themselves up like hedgehog's. The
tiger struck the tops of the casks, and seemed foe •
moment to be utterly confounded, and during that
moment we raised our narked& The beast don
slightly quarterly, with Ids heed from MIA so that my
best point of sight was jest behind his , Ws
fired together, or very nearly so. While yet tbs ring
of our reports was upon the air, we heard • doelesieg
howl, and before the smoke had rated away, so thin
we could see the lighter, the tiger wee u the send,
very near the spot where he had croucb.d before. Ho
saw a*, and with another yell, leaped towards us. I
dubbed my musket, and struck him upon the heed as
he prised me, brit the blow seemed to make no impetigo
✓oe upon him. Heikept on some yards halyard as, and
then turned. He did not stop to gather foe • erring,
but rushed directly towards us. We moved gaiety midi,
and he passed us again. We bow, of caucus, that he
was bewildered, and to such an egret that he weld
, not reason. As be turned the scrod time, the mane
caught the re, which he bad brought with its far
ordinary use, and stood by to use it. He grasped it
with • steady heed, for there we, lints danger see,
, and as the tiger came on again, hesitedieg and held
turning when he reached us, Bill brought him • blew
upon the top of the hoed, that split kis Ault The WO*
ben4 staggered eideerays • few steps, aid then fell. The
natives now came up from the lighter, end their mbar
of joy and exultation were tiepin anything of the kind
I ever beard before. They claimed • good share el
credit in the monster's death, and we were wihilag to
grant it, for had they not red se coolly and neoluesly
as they did, the tiger wend not hare bees killed as be
was, sod beyond that it was impoesthie to judge what
might have happened. At all events I don't Wier
that we, had we been exactly in their sitnetics, would
, have done so well as they did. We should not hen,
resorted to etre/nets so early and natutt,
but should bays been more likely to have
for the cabin, or to have faced him and nods the
aro of it, in either of which cases we should
probably bar come out second hest. The tiger
mirrored seven feet and • half in leper of body, and
nearly eleven feet from nose to tail iselesiva TV* of
our bullets had prised within half an inch of his liar;
one had entered his head, while or was lodged In his
shoulder. We voted the skin to our mete, and he was
thankful and proud. It was lucky we had the skis to
show, when we returned to the ship, else Um sew
might not bats believed that we had slats web as
animal so seedy.
"Tan OWL" Pane Av wngsmo..—This prier,
presented by the editors of The Oiel newspaper, awl
shot for under such portlier eireamateness, wee woo by
Margret' Martin Smith, of the Victorian Itemiser el
an extremely classical silver vies, with two Indy
tapered handles rising the entire height, and between
which on the summit of the lid in parched • well
modelled owl, The body of the vase has, on seek side,
a heautifellyarested has rein In oxidised silver. , this
one repreerntiug " Minerva" (the irides' GI widen.
larning, arts., and arms), meted with shield and spear.
and by her side a, DWI ; roar of these emblemette
birds forming the plum of her helmet. Oe the other
skis is • lisechrldir group of shildree, cern*/
with vino leaves, boners at groom strews abort is tie
foreground, and • sage owl stem an this. drew the
hough of • neighbouring Ira. The vase is mewled
by • fluted stem, and standees, an rosy ensetel, whin
beers a silver shield with • suitable iseeriptir

Tbe totrodeetitst of commodities thatoommand a
sale from their dietioctive advantages beim taluedi
the Wolin frameatly stlamote s beet of lailtabom.
sawleariser to ram off inferior articles mese lan
the trade-saark, peeks* be, et MooragV
man, the well-known original Imparters oftbe Pure
Tee; therefore perchmers should lot fail to settee thoh
the sigestare—" Iforaitnan and Co, Loadme—le is
rich geneim packet. Their tea, front lie reliable soul
quality, barn for e qsarter of • essitary beau is
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roar throughout theikli.:isloon, proving theft .n en
'woos, good tea, cod er aterbee quality to mare
appeal-mos. ornintaue Kama slumber Mane
two thomand ; those is this locality we agreetieel is
our mimosas.

The public do not realise Wm fall bees& et ell
reduced tax on tea owing to the many meets willt
which it is charged, for iii. passed from the grower he
the Chime* merchant, Mon to the &OM merehmeds
nest to the tea broker, afterwards to the Leedom whole-
sale dealer, who wells it to the rodalder.—.lll•l2"l.
end Co.'s improred mode of eispedy mom el Moto
charges sta avoided, sad Sea et surpsaddi "lass"
and purity le seenred, es all their lasporla are sent
direct to woman throogh that' Lae" =
manta in waled masts with the prim piraly
thereat • Hornless& and 00. thensfore gaanialea le
purd"„ I. a part of the Works I" °I red.. IP=
et
thsir Axed-price moodhil to me teat
pick. 4 sapid Bernina. sod Co-, MONA llarmassa
of the pars lee.

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