The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-01-06 00:00:00

TIGIIMHUNTING.

• Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, it present earring in
India, writing to his relative, in Bath, under date of October
25th, gives a graphic ace mot of an attack on a man-eatirig
tiger:--" We got news at Murree of a man-eating tiger the
other day, and started out after him -nit self, a man named
11—, of the - and I—, 41 the - Regt. In the
evening I Was he If and I , and I began from what I
heard to be a little hopeful Too man, it appeared, hod boos
taken .me dlidance, soda thing Ism f 3 .nd of him except hi*
skull, hand., and one foot, suuiuh sounded tioerilike-parithere
generally wangling. in maul i nevi g ni-the j ono le. too,looked
very tigeri.h. Next morsilint we wore up so', early, and soon
got a sight of the brute. We came precntiy to • little open
glade about twenty dards ling and ten Iwo id. I was • little In
front, and had separated fr im the thikaree about a yard; we
were peering all ways at occe, having given him orders on no
account to fire. I nwidery brad my gun go, and turning
round saw the shit aree fin' g the secund buTel down a rock of
about .co foe% which went town from the edge of the glade to
the thick jungle below. Toe next second the brate came up
the rock line a ci, and en to th 3 min (who had mimed him
clean with the barrel, at about fifteen foot). The man fell
backwards, harping him If wl It his gun arid barrio as well as
he could. The brute lock.iy did not strike him with hls paw,
but grabbed hint with Ii .Ch paws like a cat and was getting
his hood down to bite hint In the neck, when I let him hove II
In the eh cider, no close tout I eurchoil the hair all round Oda
hole. I wasn't four tett from him, anil my muzzle wan not
th in a foot. y gz.o was ef course gone, and I had only
• single rift', and • cow mils rascal of a Bombay &troy, with a
loaded sikUsael and hay not, had totted. I me-laded aa quick
LI I could, not feeling thry comfartable ; toe esplo.ion load
almost blown the t gee -II the mu but he tackled him again,
and just as I was cloth.; the breed, he turned round and dis-
appeared before I coo d cock the rifle, and the bottles being
close up he was out of 4i3ht in • moment, leavings tremendous
track of blood. I th, m.i.t ho had g his tp. Otitis, and it would
have killed him bet to evening, but the rifte-a :0 express,
and very good for deer-woe scarcely heavy enough, thitugh
the shot, as it turned out, went through the lung. and clue to
the heart. I fired from the right part. We then took the
unfortunate man to the rear, and bad him washed. Ile
was very much clawed-a good deal frightened, though he
behaved pluckily arid well, except in thing my gun. He
bad mean the tiger wounded below, and if he had told me I
should Wee had a steady shot at his heed, which I could
not get when he was biting at the man, and he would pro-
bably not have got up the rock: After this I esw the tiger
from a high rock in the thick jingle, very sick, and falling
about as he walked, I-'s bearer would go down to the
junta, coutrary to order., he desiring to get the death
shot. We could jut see his head above the bushes when
we saw an ugly rush through them, like a big 6.11 in water.
The Ulan fired and disappeared, having fallen down. I
shouted, end he answered. I ran down through the thick
Jungle, and found him mining on the ground, with one barrel
of the gun discharged I said-' Are you hurt I' and he replied
Yea, very badly wounded.' I could me nothing but one
tear in the front of the shoulder in a thick English out he
worts and very little Moo I and, as • native generally eau he
Is killed, thought he was humbugging, but eat down by him
till the other two came up. They carried him back out of the
el•ngerous ground, and cut his coat and thin off, which they
fuond full of black clotted blood, the tiger having hltteu him
dean through the thoulder. Ho said that he no wooer went
down, and oo opener got into the bushes than the beset (who I
have ae doubt had been watching him the whole those) come at
him, lie fired bitting him in the chat, as we afterwards
found, aod the tiger, who was mortally wounded before, turned
round, bit him in the shoulder, and left him. I can't under-
stand ow not having fired the second barrel He and the other
man were sent straight into Munn; the other man recovered,
but in his case mortification set in (be was bitten, which la
always worn than being clawed), and he died in two days, to
great regret, who was very fond of him, and indeed to that
of all of us. T return to our tiger. We took our post in the
branches, and could tee the Inothee waving, and hear the tiger
sighing as he lay about twenty yards off, though we could see
nothing In the thick bulb, We fired matchlocks at him until
he charged twice more, though we could never got II ersar shot
at him. Ills wood charge (the last mule) he came to the foot
of the rise, just below me on a branch, but had not the pluck
left In him to get up the hill. I fired a shot with one hand.
holing on to the tree with the other, and mined him, at about
ten het, my rifle tithinga large charge and kicking. Ile turned
round as he went aff and en utled at us Just like an angry
Parian doff. Shortly alterwarde we hurled • lot of stones from
above on the opposite side down where he lay , undo, he look
no notice of it concluded him to be dead, bidee the sighing
had ceased (a peculiar norie between • purr and the bard
breathing of alone In pain). We stole round cuutiounly, and
one of the coolies went out on • long branch of a tree nearly
over him, and shouted that be saw him dead. I was following
him out on the bough when it cracked. I held or. to the tree,
and the coolie went down nearly twenty feet, but the jungle
was so (hit k it broke his fall, and he was none the worse. We
then stole down and found hint dead-a Ana short-tailed LII
tiger, Oft. in length, Ob. Olin. body. Yft 11j1u. la and 10 n.I
round the fore arm. Ile had my shot In him, sibich paused
through both lungs and very near the heart, and one from the
bearer who wail killed, right in the centre of the cheat.
Zither would have killed him. I got the ski-', haring hit Lim
first (indeed, the other two missed him, though they did not
get the chance I did.) We got £III reward for the bust as a
oangeruut man•eater, which just covered our expenses, which
were heave, as we gave Lb O to the family of the man who was
killed, and AS to the man who was wounded. This is a large
sum fur • untie*, and they both got hurt through disobeying
osdass. Ha not only endangered his own life, but that of
everyone who wax there, and mine especially. I, of cosine, did
not say a word to tbe unluaky man, end he west away
then:n.lo4 happy and awfully Niger to come with me again."

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