The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-01-04
The Tigers of the East Indies.

~ ISSUED by the Gazette Of India upon the
number of deaths from the attacks of wild
beasts throughout the country. 1t is diff
tlcult, indeed, to realize the facts invOlv-
ed in these remarkable columns Of statis-
tics. We are accustomed to read of iso-
lated cases of the destruction Of few
hunters in the jungle by tigers or ele-
phants but here we have a record show
ing that in the war between men and wild
beasts the men have 10 great extent not
only the worst of the contest, but the
beasts follow up their victory until man
eating tiger creates such terror in a dis
trlct that "whole villages are depopulat-
ed, public roads and thoroughfares are
rendered literally unapproachable by hu-
man beings in broad daylight, and thou
sands OF acres of once cultivated land are
entirely deserted and consigned to the
grow OF vegetation to offer in their turn
safe coverts to those noxious animals :"
The Government, of course, has not been
idle. Various means have been devised
to mitigate the pest, but with compare
lively little success, as the figures we are
about to quote will prove
The aggregate number of deaths by the
onslaught of wild beasts throughout the
provinces of Madras, Bombay, Bengal,
the Northwestern provinces. Punab,
Oudh, Central provinces, Cour4 lIydera-
bad and British Blrmah, Tor three years,
amounts to 12,55t The deaths from
snake bite, over the area comes up to 25,-
GGi. So that from both causes there is a
huge total Of mortality, scoring 3S,31S
persons, who have come to a violent or
lingering end in what to us seems a
~
desirable, perhaps. to dwell upon the ma
ture OF the pain and fright which must
seize the victim who is dragged down to
be the prey of the tiger, or who is wound
ed by the deadly tangs OF the cobra ser
pent. DR.. Livingstone has told us that
when q lion seized him the shake which
lie creature gave him, like that which n
cat gives Z mouse, seemed to kill within
him the very sense Of danger OF fear, 50
that he remained passive, though not
unconscious, IN its grasp But on the
other hand we have only to glance into
the stories Of the Indian hunters to find
tales of the swoop of the tiger on na-
tive, and then the plunge with the Shrek
ing quarry into the forest, which gives the
most convincing proof that not to every
one does death in this dreadful manner
come rs calmly as if seemed to na nm
pruochinp DR. I.ivinostonr
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