Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-10-11
Adventures with the Man Eater.
tR9a g THE WILD SPORTS OF INDIA, )" BY CAPTAIN
HENRY SHAKESPEARE,

laethOd employed by those who can afford to
Keep elephants for the sport, or can borrow
them for the OCCASION
Tigers are also killed by shikarccs (hunters,)
European or native, who make mechauns up in
trees (platlorms Of boughs,) with charpoy, or
native bed, fastened on them, and tic q bullock
below when the animal kills the bullock, or
returns to eat, they shoot him. These, then,
are the usual ways ofdcstroylng tigers might
say common tigers for If the tigers are man
caters, they arc generally 50 cunning that they
the country they live in may probably be too
rocky aud mountainous for elephants to be us
Cd. With this preface will proceed to the tale
Of two man.oatcrs which destroyed, and to
whose destruction | shall ever look back with
i'rlings Of the greatest satisfaction,
1t was on the ed of April, 1856, that came
to village b. name paindeFdce, in the Raj
pore district Of the Nagporc province, intending
to march through the ghauls, or mountain pas
ecs. 10 IAujac, which thought to be my direct
road from Bclasporo, -whcre had been inspcc-
ting detachment Of troops under my command
to BhundAyah where had to inspect anotll-
cr detachment. The weather was so hot that |
lad been obliged, while standing at the head of
a rayinc waiting for tiger to pour the drink
ing water out Of my chagul, Or leather bottle,
over my shooting -boots-though this water, III
an arid, parchcd district, was very precious-te
enable me to stand on the ground
had killed with my own rifle sixteen head o.
large game in fourteen successive days. botwcc'
the lst and It'll Of April viz, two tigers, full
grown, eight bears seven Of them full grown
i've deer, Of different sorts, aud wolf;-all or
foot except one tiger and one bear, and march
jng the while. | had been travelling between
twenty and twenty-five miles day since, my
people and cattle were therefore knocked up.
At paindoldee was told that the mountain
passes were inpracticabe for my baggage, and
that | must strike down into the direct road be-
tween Raiporc and Blundarah, and that indeed
this was as short way as the other; while
twenty-five miles from where was, at village
called DoOngurghur e.. G. mountain abode, J
there was a pair Of man eating tigers, which
lad desolatcd the village, and killed great
number of the inhabitants My determination
was taken ielt this was a call and forthwith
ordered the march for the morrow to be placed
twenty miles from Painderdee, and within five
Of Doongurghur.
Ny tents, as usual, were started after dinner
at nine o'clock P. NJ, aud started at two o.
clock next morning. At seven o'clock came
20 my intended hating place at which, as il
-happancd there was no water fit to drink, con,
squtntly my people had not pitched the tents.
/ ordered them tostart q, once for Doonsurshur,
where there waa q tank, Or lake. celebrated for
il. fine water, and iS3i never 1-;,: zig up i: .A~
hottest season,
All the villagers, with Tie exception of one
family, lad, however, been either killed or had
ran away supplies there were none. These
therefore were ordered to be forwarded to us,
and the zomindar'9, Of landhQlley's, chupras.
b. ., promised to attend to The business
The raiah-as he was called, but WHO WAS on
y a wealthy a.mjndar, Or laudhqller, Of Ky.
r4shur-ihc great town & that part, sent inc
word, that everything should be done, that his
two elephants and all his shikaocs (natiyc hun
tcrs) were at my disposal, and begged me to &C
and destroy these man. caters. lie himself had
tried short time before with his elephants, but
mad not succeeded.
'fhe last victim Of the man-ea was the By
raghec, or holy man, who oficiated at the tenn
pie Of the village. The rajah, upon this, ha,
hired five hunters (shikarces,) men who are il
tue habit Of shooting tigers, who went to til,
place to recover the body Of The holy man bu
the stories that they heard at Doongurghul
were sufficient. They fled the fight and NJ
wonder, when You consider that these poor Eel
lows are armed with the matchbox only, anC
that these mountain tigers keep such look-ou
rom their high Businesses that none can moy
in the jungle or forest, except in the heat Of TIN
day, without their seeing him.
started wthmy s1Ikarccs ut onoe for Doom
gurghur, and had proceeded about two and
h1if miles, when found two natives will
matchloks, one up in a tree, ard the other hi,
at the foot Of it. Addressing them, asked
What Of the man-eatin3 tigers? and to shoe
what are you sitting up there They rcplic
That they were waiting to shoot The chikura, 0
rAYine deer, The gazclle of Arabia and that 4
to the tigers, they know nothing of them,
took one Of their match-locks in my hand as
rode along, praised the weapon, and said,-
Come, you and arc brothers. You are sl
karae, and so am T. you must come and assis
me in killing these tigers The man came V