The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-06 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RACING FIXT I
FEBR:

URES FOR 1868.
1.JA11,Y.;
I Nottingham Spring 25
1 Dorby Spring

Lincoln Spring
31. i nsfield
Harrow 2O

MA:

Liverpool Spring M. 3
0 -el►usford Spring M lO
S trewsbury Spring 10
West Drayton l2
Warwick Spring

Bromley Spring 6
Durham
Hendon l3
Newmarket Craven
Knighton l4
Abergavenny ..... 16

Margate
Epsom Spring Meeting 24
Crorton Park
Northampton

Chester 5
Winchester
York Spring
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury

'RUA.
I Catterick Bridge l6
Lewes Spring
Thirsk
Curragh April 2l
Newmarket Ist Spring 27

West Drayton 1
Croydon 2d Summer 3
Manchester
Ascot Summer 9
Beverley, Hull, and
East Riding lO
Windsor Summer

Bath
Croydon Ist Summer
Harpenden
Epsom Summer

Newton - l7
llainpton
Newcastle 23
Bibury Club 23
Stockbridge
Alexandra Park 3O

Chelmsford
Worcester Summer
Carlisle
Newmarket July 7
Pontefract
Reading
Down Royal Corp. l5
Liverpool July M.
SEPTEMBER.
Baden
Warwick September 1 Hendon
Abingdon 3 Monmouth ..
Leicester
I Doncaster September 8 Walsall
Brecon West Drayton
Richmond
Hampton Autumn l5 and Western M

Odiliam, l6
Stamford
Radcliffe ..... 2O
Huntingdon 2l
Nottingham July
Southampton
Goodwood

AN AFRICAN TRAVELLER.—A traveller in Africa
had flung himself down to rest under the shade of a wide-
spreading tree, laying hi 3 musket, his constant compa-
nion, by his side. Suddenly his glance alighted on sont3
plants which he had never seen before, and on rising to
examine them, with all a botanist's enthusiasm, his at-
tention was attracted by a rustling noise in the neigh-
bouring bushes. Turning round to inquire into the cause,
a tigress, with her two cubs sporting about her,
started up between him and the tree, where he had
left his weapon. The beast immediately stood still,
uttering a low, fierce growl, and the whelps, astonished
at an object so novel as a man, paused in their gam-
bols. Dr. Iran Tschudi was well aware that a tigress
is never so formidable as when she fancies her young
to be in danger, and standing in the presence of that
ferocious beast, utterly defenceless and unarmed, he
felt for a moment all the agony of despair. Tschudi,
however, soon recovered his presence of mind, and know-
ing the influence of the human eye upon wild animals, he
sternly fixed his gaze upon the tigress to prevent her from
advancing. It was a strange spectacle, the man and
the beast thus confronting each other in an attitude of
rigid composure. The power of intellect was acknow-
and she stood as if rivetted to the
lodged by the animal,
spot. The cubs, however, were not under the spell of the
human eye, and, darting forward, played about the travel-
ler's legs. The sight of this disturbed the tigress
began to roar and lash her sides violently with her ; he
ttail,
prepared to spring upon Tschudi if ho touched her little
ones. At that instant the doctor, still fixing his eyes upon
the mother, stooped down, and, passing his hand over the
back of the young tigress, who seemed quite sensible of
the caress, he observed that the tigress was evidently
iorple.oaseld-
with the partiality he lavished on her offsprinrr
ing ceased, and she resumed her impassive attitude-igiw
The
two cubs, continuing their frolic, now darted away from
the traveller, biting and chasing each other like kittens,
until, at length, they strayed beyond their mother's sight
or hearing. Her maternal anxiety was aroused, and she
turned in search of thorn. Dr. Van Tschudi seized the
opportunity to get behind a bush which concealed him
from the tigress, and then he made for the place where ho
had left his gun. He was not compelled to use it, how-
ever, for the tigress and her whelps did not reappear, and
Tschudi, with a thankful heart, resumed his journey.—
Mao' Sxfrft of the Zino