The Princeton union., 1879-08-13
A Curiously told Tiger Story.

A paper published in India says. The
following sensational story of an encoun-
ter with a 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 Rohanpore. NV
howda was on Makhna-Kishen Lal had
his on Dantal. At nine A. NJ. we en-
countered a tiger, and bang went two bull
lets from my rife, hitting stripes, sup
pose, on the loin and the belly, and Kish.
en- Lal hit him on the thigh. q Most prob
| ably the bullets did not break the bones
and the Spotted foe' took shelter at some
distance. in the water of hollow over
hung with long CLASSY jungle and was, Of
course, not visible. I at once followed
the game with couple of elephants, one
being only beater. Poor Makhna, on
which was mounted, unfortunately fell
into the hollow, and, quick as lightning.
the tiger was on his back biting him. i
lost no time in giving stripes two 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 a 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. Gland
Tare, poor creature, did afterwards come
towards me, but she was only beaterl
and took her stand some fifteen feet be-
hind. Poor Makhna was much the worse
for this singular combat and fell pros
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fell on the ground The tiger lay some
four or five feet from me. Not seeing me.
my followers were alarmed. They kicked
up a row, Kishen Lal crying out uncle
killed by tiger To see me was impossi-
BILE. Lying on the ground 1 thought of
God, pressed against the howda. handled
the rifle and gave stripes bullet. 1t
told upon its 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 IT,
gers back. He then left Makhna and all
vas over with stripes in an instant The
was on his legs. The mahut
got upon his neck and / mounted the
howda. Makhna, poor creature, had been
hurt in his trunk in ten or twelve plpces.
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 a tiger has fallen
by my rife, but never in my life did I
witness such larai."