Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
A Curiously told Tiger Story.

"A paper published in India says The
following sensational story Of an encoun-
ter with tiger is supplied BY Babu Do
man Chunder Chowdry, Zemindar Of
Maldah: On the morning, 9th, Bhaddra,
Klshen Lal and myself went with five
elephants to the Kaduband jungle, four
miles to the north Of Rohanpo1e My
howda was on Makhna- Kishen Lal had
his 90 Dantal. AT nine A. NJ. we en-
countered a tiger, and bang went two bull
lets from my rifle, hitting stripes, sup
pose, on the loin and the belly, and Kish-
en- Lal hit him on the thigh Most prob
ably the bullets did not break the bones
and the spotted foe took shelter at some
distance in the water of a hollow over
hung with long CLASSY jung.e and was, Of
course, not visible. I at once followed
the game with a couple of elephants, one
being only a heater. Poor Makhna, on
which was mounted, unfortunately fell
into the hollow, and, quick as lightning,
the tiger was on his back biting him. 1
lost no time in giving stripes ta o bullets
in his body, and yet the fight between
the elephant and tiger continued. The
moment was critical. The feat Of re
naming in the howda became extremely
difficult. With his trunk Makhna dragged
stripes down four or five times and the
latter made the bulky body Of the former
shake right and and left some fourteen
or fifteen times. During this struggle
the mahut fell on the ground from the
elephants neck but had the dexterity to
mount his back again and then to lodge
himself on the back Of the howda, which
shook so fearfully at times it would come
swinging to the ground. Ofcourse, now,
the combat was 'hand-to-hand.' and last
ed nearly an hour. The four remaining
elephants followed me at first, but what
| with the struggle between their comrade
and stripes, and the roaring OF the one
and the cries of the other, they became
uncomfortable, beat hasty retreat and
took their stand more than sixty yards off
Dear Kishen Lal tried his best to come
up to me, but the Dantal was too much
| frightened to obey the mahut. Chand
Tare, poor creature, did afterwards come
towards me, but she was only heater
and took her stand some fifteen feet be-
hind. Poor Makhna was much the worse
AOA oA1Ao oAHSS uld1 COluUdt dull 1c1l plOS-
trate on his right size, and stripes, too,
fell on the ground. The tiger lay some
four or five feet from me. Not seeing me,
my followers were alarmed. They kicked
up row, Kishen Lal crying out suncie
killed by tiger To see me was impossi-
BILE. Lying on the ground thought Of
God, pressed against the howda. handled
the rife and gave stripes a bullet. 1t
told upon it's neck, but yet it did not let
go its hold Of the elephant, which was
still lying on It's side. The contents of
the other barrel I emptied into the ii
gers back. He then left Makhna and all
was over with stripes in an instant. The
elephant was on his legs. The mahut
got upon his neck and I mounted the
howda. Makhna, poor creature, ad been
hurt in his trunk in ten or twelve pieces
The tiger measured thirteen feet from
the tip OF his nose to the end of his tail
This IS but faint outline Of what actual
ly took place. Many tiger has fallen
by my rifle, but never in my life did ]
witness such a larai"