Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-28


shot from the hosrdaA, and fired three
ounce shell at his broad forehead At about
thirty yards. No result. 1t was most Gu
rious and paused to look; but never a
motion of the tiger acknowledged the
shot. / then went around quarter of
circle, but still the tiger remained motion
less, looking intently in the same direc-
ton. marched up, rifle on full cock,
growing more and more amazed--but the
tiger never moved. Could he be dead? |
went round to his rear and approached
close up from that direction. He never
stirred. Then made the elephant kick
him, and he fell over. He was stone dead
converted without the movement OF 4
hair into statue OF himself by the burst
ing of the large shell in his brain. 1t had
struck him full in the center of the fore
head. We then went on with the track of
the other. 1t led down into the Moran
River, on the steep bank of which there
was a thick cover of jaman- bushes, in
which the tiger was sure to stop. l had
just before come through 1t, and found the
place as full of tracks rs rabbitwarren.
Having spare pad.elephant on that day
sent her round to keep down the bottom of
the bank and mark, while pushed my
own elephant-Futteh RAM Queen of Vic
tory)-through the cover. About the Gen.
ter came on the tiger, crouched like the
other, with his massive head rested on his
forepaws, the drawn-up headquarters and
slightly-twitching tail showing that he
meant mischief. AT the first shot, which
struck him on the point of the shoulder,
he bounded out at me; but the left barrel
caught him in the back before he had
come many yards and broke it, when he
rolled down right to the bottom of the
bank, and fell, roaring horribly, right be-
tween the forelegs of the elephant
On another occasion was much struck
with the caution of the monkeys under
very trying circumstances. In May,
1864, / had tracked man-eating ugress
into deep ravine near the village OF Pail,
in the Seoni district She was Not quite
a confirmed man eater, but had killed
nine or ten persons in the preceding few
months. She had u cub OF about six
months old with her, and it was when
this cub was very young and unable to
move about that want of other game had
driven her to kill her first human prey.
knew when | entered the ravine that
this was her regular haunt; for, though
every bush outside had been stripped of
its berries by a colony of monkeys, | saw
them perched on the rocks above the ra-
vine wistfully looking down ON the bushes
at the bottom, which had strewed the
ground with their ripened fruit They
accompanied me along the ravine on the
top of the rocks, as if perfectly knowing
the value of their assistance in getting the
tigress- better markers | never had.
| should probably hare passed ont at the
top without seeing her, as she was lying
close under a shelving bank, but for the
profane language of an ancient, gray
bearded lianuman, who posted himself
right above her, and swore away until he
fairly turned her out of her comfortable
berth. The excitement of the monkeys
soon told me she was on the move; and
presently | saw her round tace looking at
me from behind tree with forked
trunk, through the cleft of which l caught
sight of about square foot of her striped
hide. 1t seemed about the right place, SO
covering 1t carefully | put in shell ut
about forty yards, and she collapsed there
and then, forminga beautiful spread-eagle
In the bottom of the nala The youngster
now started out, roaring AZ If he were the
biggest tiger In the country; and, though
fired a couple of snapshots at him as he
galloped through some thick bushes, |
could not stop him. IL Is important to
extinguish brute, however young, who
has once tasted human flesh; and | fol-
lowed him till IL grew nearly dark, when
| returned TO the ravine to take home the
tigrcss, and there | found my monkey
friends tucking into the berries in all di-
rcctions, and hopping about close to the
body of the dead tigress. The cub was
met, much exhausted with its run, by
gang OF wood.cutters, and killed with
their axes. -" Highlands Of Central indtd,'
By Capt james Forsyth.