The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-19
xrE1rgg TIGERS WITH SrRYCHNINE
An English tiger hunter tells the Indian n
onear how ha kills royal Bengal tigers:

An English tiger hunter tells the Indian Fl
onser how. he kills royal Bengal tigers:
I use the old Kentucky pea-rife, eighty
bore, which I had with me In and COLO.
RADIO. Since then got It converted Into q
Observation-Disclosures and sc snow takes three and 8
half drachms1of powder, and q ollow picket
nearly thrse dIameters In length, made or thin
steel and coated with platinum to give IL
weight and enable it to take the riding: There
is q small sorew.plug In the base, which can
be taken out. The cases are very long,
and ne Tuickets I am obliged to get out from
sprInpHeid, Massachusetts, as there are none
manuiactured in England. Well, the secret
of nv 6agging to 8 certainty every tiger ! MT
with single bullet from this pea.rlde Is ibis,
thstg Ifli up the hollow 10 the picket with
niae4or ten grains Of strychnine of Scheele's
strength. That ID, reckon, an overdose, as l
believe one grain Of this strength would Kill a
tiger; but I give him to the extent the picket
with This bullet 30 prepared, 1t does not
matterip the slightest degree in what part OF
the body you hit the tiger; all that is neces-
sary Ia that the bullet penetrate the skin
somewhere, aud II you st down and smoke
vour pipe. SIS I generally do after firing, you
will and the animal lying dead In from ten
minutes to an hour or 30, according, l fancy,
"a tn whether the picket breaks up at q large
nr ssmsll vein. When found the tiger Ia fire.
GnentIy as 'stiI SO If he had been shot two or
tnres days previously. 1t Is very curious to
watch the effects Of NE stry Ta ioIe o %casn ap 7
cs,na ON q tiger that I had q few minutes be.
lore wounded In the feshy part of the hind
loo. ha was standing motianless, With bis legs
snread out like q four-legged etool, and pant.
inc IKE an express steam engine. | did not
MIN going mp to within-a few yards OF MIN,
a. had my three barrel breeeh-loader IN my
hand: but he, nevertheless, took no notice OF
me. although he must have seen me. l then
went gradually nearer, but he never moved,
mr. tt hist, NOT wishing 10 keep the beast ID
rain. T went up into q tree just above him, and
punched q neat hole In his skull with q solid
picket from the Kentucky.
On several other occasions ! have seen a
tiger which I had wounded walking through
the Jungle apparently all right, but falling into
convulsions whenever a twlg or branch OF q
tree which he was passing under touched his
back. TO show you how i~nfallible Ia this
method of killing q tiger, I once fred at 9
tiger dsshing across me at iull tear, and
made sure I had missed him, but the same
sooWherd reported q dead tiger In the jungle
there + had been. I instantly repaired to LRe
sn,,t. nv torchlight, for fear some dpers might
eat him. and at once saw IL was the tiger
had fired at. After at least half an hours
search for q bullet mark, we at last found Inc
tall Within about one foot from the tip OF 1t:
+ learned this idea from an elephant hunter ]
met at Ntetwe In Southern Central Africa. BIC
: told me he has frequently bagged elepnante
nv this means from four hundred to hVe nun
Syed vards. but he used a very heavy rife
and I fancy his shells would have held twenty
or TWENTY-FIVE grains at least. 1 had no op,
portunity OF trying 1t there myself, as / mao
no means Of obtaining strychnine. Of course
If Won take to my plan, you must do as dS
with every animal you bag, that 10, col,ec
Sru wood and burn him the moment his Skin
ia offSalbet to the great disgust of the villag
orr many. of whom are as fond OF tlger't
Hesh "a he sometimes Is of theirs.