Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-30
A Tigers Jaws.

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An officer of the British Army, in India,
gives the following account of remarkable ad-
venture of his =
Grice "a man of the Goth, stationed here)
and obtained two and half months leave, on
purpose to kill tigers, panthers and bears
Having made our preparations for the Jungle,
we started on the 18th of March, with inc
band !; consisting of one big drum, one big bell,
four small drums, and pair of pistols always
loaded with coarse powder, and being continu-
ally let off. The noise of this cnncert was
was sufficient TO frighien any animal out of
the Jungle and when it was not, we had also
some twenty or thirty men to set up a supple.
mentary yell. j should like you to have heard
onr band turning corner amongst the hills
Our battery consisted of ten double guns
some rifles, the others smooth-bored- two
brace of pistols. We did not commence firing
until the twentieth, when we began about nine
In the morning our plan being always 10 get
some half-a-mile before the beaters, and hav-
ing placed ourselves in some likely spot, sit
quietly, and, if possible, concealed, until they
had beaten up to US. Owing to rain we saw
nothing until the twenty-second when, hav-
ing walked some five miles, we perched our
selves, guns and all, on small tree and put
the beaters on. We had been in the tree about
twenty minutes, when Grice whispered to me,
"Tiger !" | saw her almost at the same mo-
ment we fired four barrels, all of which took
effect She charged with frightful speed right
under the tree in which we were sitting, and
was into the jungle in moment. Immediate
ly afterwards peacock began calling, a sure
sign of tiger being near; and, sure enough,
out came young cub about the size of dog ;
this, Grice shot. We then began the ticklish
work Of following up,' generally done on ele-
phants; but, not being rich enough to sport
them, were forced to go on fout We traced
our prey about halfa-mIe into the Jungle,
which was so thick that one could not see more
than ten yards ahead. separated some six or
seven from Grice, and was in the act of looking
down close TO the ground when heard a
frighful roar and, before had time literally
to cock one barrel Il had imprudenlly gone in
to the jungle with my piece on halfcock,)
felt myself jammed in the brute's jaws. She
carried me about ten yards. My face, believe,
was touching her cheek, when Grice, with the
most wonderful presence of mind, put two bull
let's into her ear. She dropped, but still held
me. Grice ran up, and before she was ac-
tually dead, pulled me out of her mouth.
am told that there was not two inches of
space between my head and the spot where the
bullets hit. Had Grice's hand shaken | should
he had very small mark to fire at. | was
perfectly conscious when pulled out Of the
brute's mouth.
The skin, Of course, kept as trophy-il
is nearly twelve feet long. The accident oc-
CURED about fifty miles from camp; and if ii
had not been for Grice, God knows how
should ever have been taken back but he is
well known by the natives in fact they are
afraid of him, (his nickname is Tiger Grice, }
and he told them they would be well paid il
they carried me 10 the next town, Jaat, about
twelve miles off After some little arrange
ment. they carried me on my bed TO Jaat,
where Grce is almost worshipped, on account
of having last year killed tigress, which had
at different times killed twentY-four of the vii
layers, and at the time Grice shot her, she
was in the act of eating ali unfortunate wo-
man. Twenty-four men were sent out from
camp with palanquin, to meet me. Grice
rode all night by my side, and accompanied me
within two miles of camp, when he went back
again to go on with his sport. |; is more thar
month since he has been heard from, but
hope he is all right. | suffered great agony
from the moment l was bitten. My mother
was always anxious about all her children:
constitutions well, very clever doctor tolC
me that if had not had an iron constitution, i
would have gone very hard with me. | an
perfectly convalescent, walk about, and 60 on
every evening in a kulkee; the wounds art
healing, but it is irritable to have ones arm
continually slung up. should like to sent
the skin to England, but it is very large, ant
would be difficult to pack up; otherwise, i
would make nice rug.