The Portland daily press., 1879-12-13

it was evidently that of large tiger. was |
soon in my new position; and, as it was not
an over-safe place, being rather low, and
within springing distance OF tiger, was
(sorely against my will persuaded to allow
the best shikar among the men to stay with
me. 1 had once before lost tiger from the
impossibility of getting a native to keep aD,
solutely still for long, and hadvowed would
never have one with me again, but l was
overpersuaded ON this occasion. We mad
not been quarter of an hour in the machan
before the crows and cockyolly birds began
to herald the approach of tiger. AT last l
heard the soft, slow, cautious tread coming
down small ravine from my right rear.
What a sensation it is!-every nerve AT
tension, every sense on the fullest watch,
every muscle under control, the heart al
most audihly beating, the breath quick anu
suppressed, the blood coursing at its best,
the mouth open and dry, your finger on the
right trigger of your trusted Henry, ana
your eye fixed on the spot where every sec,
ond YOU expect to see that handsome, cruel
head appear. But alas! in the very crisis,
when confluence would have given me my
tiger almost too a{certainty, therewas sound
behind me like a cross between clumslly-
opened saltwater bottle and the bursting OF
the back strap of your waistcoat. Agnu
had tried to stife a sneeze, and the tiger was
gone! l think it is greatly to my credit that
inat lndn sun lives anu an oIa1 "a lie ~
court u Jus'ice mo"iT i,aIo ,,;tnhod him ont
e 80 ~ Iaaai.n1 why f''N
l sat there through the whole of that long
day, and the tiger prowled about all the
time, now ON my left, now on my right, and
anon behind me; but he never ventured
within sight, and as soon as it became dark
| got down and came away.
80 o M ,U ar.ar,Ged to kaan wood Guitars
LII, III ,,t e Tho inngfa and had the
. tnu "a mn tkirJ or fonrtb dav with
ueTro Ae hnffaio What a lot of money thew
did cost me, to be sure!- 1t was early in
March befnre T eonld arrange to get back to
tbat mart of the district and by that time the
s si,e'I p' told me- that the tiger. were so
mncb at home that thew might almost have
hean stroled 7 was determined not to be
dona IN this occasion and GOT some cele-
h.atad Rabelivas from an adjoining district.
U,bo ,rere adants in the art of driving tiger
mn N the snortsman I sent nv camp out
te Mace ahout a mile from the Jungle
where the tigers had taken up their abode on
account of my careful commissariat arrange
ments and arrived there myself soon after
daylight ON the seventh Of March, 1t is
nretty hot in Allahabad by then. and could
not induce anv one to accompany me.
Everything was ready: machans had been
erected at fiSed snots. and the lines converg-
inc on the machans. up to which the tigers
were to be driven. had been formed by Kols
mt nm in trees. These men are known as
'.roksn (stopsl. and are provided with sticks.
The long array of heaters and drummers is
| drawn I'm across the base of a triangle,
which NAV be miles long, of which the lines
of roks form the sides, and the machans the
apex. The rok, keep the tiger between the
| lines by tapping on their trees with their
sticks Whenever the tiger approaches them
| in his endeavors to break right or left of the
advancing line of beaters These shikaris
boast thai thew can make tiger come with
| certainty TO any given spot, and they were
as GOOD as their word on this occasion.
| There were three machans as l had hoped
| to have brought two friends. I was told to
| take the center machan. which seemed to be
| the worst of the three, and l said So But
the great Zalim. the head shikari, insisted
on nv taking it, saying that the tiger would
come between me and the machan on my
| left The other two machans were occupied
| by natives to act as additional roks.
THE beat began at o., m and was so long
that II was only now and then that the
breeze. horne sound of the drums and the
cries of the heaters reached me. Soon all
the denizens of the iungle began to defile
before me First the lordiy sambhar (Rusa
aristotelles. the largest deer in India save
the sbon of Sikhim. Ceryus afinis). most
timid of all came infringing along the hill
Sda sanding the stones rattIing down the
puIIies~the does and fanns in front,
fr;obtenad herd tbe bucks in the rear. gin
aarIv ending through the bush their heavy
ssntierS laid we'll hack over .the croup.
T,ban The wary neafowl in great numbers.
foIInwed nv the almost eonallv wary wild
hoo. covev or two of the painted spl1rfowl
IGal1lonerdiy lunulosus. a most difficult bird
| to fnsh ran swiftly mast: several grew par
nine and Connie of hares. Bv this time
The lina-called hank or hankwa-has cot
within four or five hundred wards of nv
machan. and there has been no sign of the
randa- ra,,,a VIZ. there to baa The heat
g. hoT-o ,,o+ rioyed him either for there tas
been No Sudden fierce swell of their out
cr;os and M stnrdier belahorino of the On
dian dr,m y smch as always tell that danger
on r's', came nj; il ,foot
ST. desnairinolv at nv Communion. fat
Tabs,ldat native Collector of revenues). an
nn-countrv lat and as plucky as the day.
and With glow waving of NV left hand.
with the fingers out.pread. convey the
meaning "Kuch nahin', There is nothing)
wbenHwbat is tbatp fan on a tree above.
and two hundred wards off-two taps-a
rnnnino fire of tansi Has he turned him.
| is the silent question. for it was a rok meet
| inc the tirer,s endeayor to break I'D the hill.
Es, anetRer and a nearer tan. still up the
| hill. and then The instantlv-recognize
measured tbnd tbud. thud of trotting
tigrr advancing. Half minute more, and
q snlandid male tiger broke. at a slow trot.
avdntlv On the veyv snot nnhill from me
49, zo III bod stsEad biS ranptation he
49,, ma" h~aail ;f be hrola al ali Nv rioht
h, Jt ,,1,,n%.d SQUARE into his shonlder and
o ou,9 ba came ana he nassed straight nnder
" NV, r nv rnar;no snlenddiy As he
,ns nav au ,, Nh bii hit him aaain mmedi.
WI. 80 NC ararii,, 1rav;ng tail and
h heea o u' boes he fnmbled into deem "a
n;ne o o,'t Of si9bt ticfing m no end Of
r rouo o''' u ''''' A'''s ~
ioM Ne had hardly disanneared when. inside
+ho hit t-'' Of A covert he had broken from 7
L Ino gi' tho femole cali to him .sAhaungr;
Rnnu,;nr tlat all Iyas not roht in front and
ti, ,oi Inc linz Of ennfoies in the rear
nisn ,;Santi5 d I'D ,'o+ ilrnrr ,rb.t r. do
sue cNuehtiy ulu Hoo Aio" "iN0 w