The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-04-22
KILLING A TIGER.

left was as just and manly as his other
KILLING A TIGER.
An Exciting Hunt-The Fate of a Man Eater.
[Sydncy (Australia) Town and County Journal
A deep growl ahead of us and rust
ling in the bushes announced that we
were close on him, and in few yards
more we came upon the mangled body
Of the unfortunate syce. The brute had
not as yet commenced to make meal,
beng supposed startled by an alarm in
the camp. Of course the groom was per-
fcctly dead. The crushing blow which
he had received at the instant Of the IT,
ger spring had crushed his head into a
hundred pieces, driving some of the bones
Of the skull even through the skin of the
neck; III fact he must have been dead
when he fell over. The body
was carried back to camp without any
opposition on the part of the tiger, and
the fires were kept burning till morning,
most of the camp followers crowdlng up
as near to the tents as possible. After
daylight the grooms started off to recover
our truant stecds; these were secured and
brought back uninjured, and at ten o'clock
Burmah returned with the news that he
had marked the brute down at last, and
that one or both of Towards bullets had
wounded him the night previous, for
there was blood on his trail. Burmah
soon had his "bundabust' made, and as
we now had about one hundred and
eighty heaters collected in our train, we
had every chance Of success; rockets,
crackers, &C., were served out to them,
and then they were dispatched to Bur-
NAH under a coupe of shikarrccs to form
a line across the tar end of the ravine into
which he had tracked the man-cater,
while we, shouldering our rifles, and &C
companied by eur spare gun bearers,
were taken by him to the various passes
he considered necessary to guard. Cha
koos were Of course sent up into the trees
and every precaution taken to prevent
our friend breaking away. Major Ii.
was seated in the fork OF tree command
ing gully to the right of the gorge, up
which it was thought the brute might
steal away, while I was perched en- a
rock luckily sheltered from the burning
sun by an overhanging trce), on an en-
inence jutting out into the gorge, and
Howard was over on the opposite side of
the ravine abreast Of me, and about
one hundred yards distant; he
too, preferred standing on a
rock to climbing tree, as in the latter
case you have not the Esamc facility in
taking aim that you have when standing
on foot. After some twenty minutes
pause, we heard the heaters begin their
work, and as the different cries and re-
ports reached us, we each Of us earnestly
hoped that the hour Of the man-cater had
come. On came the line of bearers up
the gorge, nearer and nearer, and vet no
sign OF the tiger being on foot. The
rockets Kissed and the crackers exploded
in the thick jungle ahead of the line,
while the din of the tomtoms and the
yells Of the beaters were enough to deaf
en- any one near them, and yet no signs
of the tiger. ALREADY had the line ad-
vanced to within quarter Of a mile of
our posts, when noticed a chakoo wave
his turban and point down toward Major
H, and in a minute afterwards I saw
that officer raise his rifle and take aim.
It was some little time before he fired,
and then two shots in quick succession
were answered by the welcome roar that
told that they had hit. Leaving the gull
~, up which he had been trying to sneak
away unseen, he now returned to the
main gorge, and made as if about to
charge the lines OF heaters; but the chakoos
warned them, and the loud yells and ex-
ira volleys of crackers and rockets drove
him back again. He now, according to
the signals from the chakoos, was ad-
vancing between Howard and me, and
presently saw Howard's rifle quickly
raised, and again were the shots answered
by the welcome roar. Turned from his
course, he made for the spot almost on
which I was stationed, as 1 could make
out by the signals of the excited chakoos,
but as yet 1 could neither get glimpse
of him nor even hear him. Suddenly
my gun bearer pressed my arm gently,
and pointed to clump of bushes not ten
yards away, from behind which he slow
~ stalked, evidently hard hit, and, as he
stopped and looked over his shoulder in
the direction of the line of heaters, his ex-
preston OF countenance was anything
but amiablc. At this second I let him
have two shots about the point of the
shoulder, which dropped HIM, but only
tor second, for recovering himself, he
attempted charge; but his time was
come, and he had not strength enough to
reach the top Of the stone on which was
standing. He tried it but fell short,
chung to the rock for second or two,
during which time he received two or
more shots from Howard, which broke
his spine, when he fell backward and ex-
pired.