Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-10-08
xa. Gazette d. Virginia Advertiser.
AN ADVENTURE WITH \ TIGRESS.

AN ADVENTURE With y IIGHEoS.
Stewart had left the Lieutenant Governor $
camp at Murzapur on the night Of the 25th Of
November for days shooting, and intended
to return on the night of the 26th. lie had
been especially cautioned not to venture into
the jungles with the chance Of meeting IL
ger when on foot; but an eager temperament
and intense love OF sport oVercame caution. lie
fell 10 with three brother sportsmen living IN a
ruined fort in the jungle They went out to-
gcthcr, found and attacked the too probable
cuemy; and tigress was wounded In the leg.
A wounded tiger may become the scourge of a
district; it was natural that English sportsmen
should make every attempt to kill the beast
rather than leave her slightly disabled Gloss to
several large native villages
They tracked her By the blood, still wet bo.
meath their feet, up the face of steep, stony
hill, to mass Of rocks where was cave, the
mouth of which was visible above them. The
place was very dangerous. They knew that
the object of pursuit was close at hand, and
and it was proposed to defer proceedings till
the following morning, in order to get buffa-
Ioes to the place, and, by driving them among
the rocks, make the tigress show himself.
Stewart opposed the delay. He had left the
camp on the understanding that he was to re-
turn that night, and in his eagerness to lose no
time went straight up to the mouth Of the cave
and looked in. Providentialy nothing was
there. He then tracked the blood little be-
yond the spot; but as darkness drew on, he
Welded to the general wish, and agreed to await
the morning for further operations.
Having to pass the place on his return to
camp, he reckoDed that an hour up the hill ad-
dcd to the nights absence, would not cause any
serious detention. The next morning there
was delay iu procuring butfaloes, and the party
had to 90 to work without them. The blood
of the wounded animal being, moreover, dry,
it vas difficult to ascertain her precise locality.
Division of opinion as to her movements en-
sued, the trail became lost, and there was
partial separation of the guns. Stewart appears
to have been hidden from his companions by
intervening bushes when, crouching in COM
paratively open part OF the jungle, the tlgress
saw him approach and unexpectedly dashed on
cd moionless. From his own account he had
no inclination to call out; and we'll that it
was so.
\ strange necessity is that of suppressing all
signs Of the life it is mans instinct as we'll as
duty to observe. His enemy passed him, but
soon returned to seize him oy the left calf,
changing to the thigh in an attempt to carry
him off, Thinking her victim dead she drop
ped him from her mouth, then struck him with
her closed paw and left him, not, however, till
she had inflicted 20 less than thirteen indeliablc
wounds. On being found by his companions,
he helped them for the moment in binding up
his own wounds, but soon sank into kind Of
delirium. He was put upon litter, taken in
to Chuuar, and by care and skill enabled in a
f:w weeks to resume his wouted occupation
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