Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-07-09
Adventure With a Tigress.

Stewart had left the lieutenant. COVER
nor's camp at Mirzapur on the night of
the 25th November for days shooting.
He had been especially cautioned not
to venture into the jungles, with the
chance of meeting tiger when on foot;
but an eager temperament and intense
love OF sport overcame caution. He
fell in with three brother sportsmen
living in q ruined fort ia the Jungle.
They went out together, found and at
tackled the too probable enemy; and a
tigress was wounded in the leg.
A wounded tiger may become the
scourge of district; it was very nat
ural that the English sportsmen should
make every attempt to kill the beast
rather than leave her slightly disabled
close to several large native villages.
They tracked her by the blood, still
wet beneath their feet, up the face of a
steep, stony hill, to a mass of rocks
where was cave, the mouth of which
was visible above them. The place
was very dangerous. They knew
the object of pursuit was close at hand,
and most probably in the cave. A
council was held, and it was proposed
to defer proceedings until the follow
ing morning. in order to get buffaloes
to the place, and, by driving them
among the rocks, make the tigress show
herself.
Stewart opposed the delay. He had
left the camp on the understanding that
he was to return that night, and in his
eagerness to lose no time went straight
up to the mouth of the cave and looked
in. Providentially nothing was there.
He then tracked the blood little be-
You'd the spot; but as darkness drew on,
he yielded to the general wish, and
agreed to await the morning for further
operations. Having to pass the place
on his return to camp, he reckoned
that On hour up the hill, added to the
nights absence, would not cause any
serious detention. The next morning
there was delay in procuring the buff
faloes, and the party had to 60 to work
without them.
The blood of the wounded animal
being, moreover, dry, it was difficult to
ascertain her precise locality. Division
Of opinion as to her movements ensued,
the trail became lost, and there was a
partial separation of the guns. Stew
art appears to have been hidden from
his companions by intervening bushes,
when, crouching in q comparatively
open part of the jungle, the tigress saw
him approach and unexpectedly dashed
on him. Struck down to the ground,
he remained motionless. From his own
account he had no inclination to call
out; and we'll that it was so. Astrange
necessity is that of suppressing all
signs of the life it is mans instinct as
we'll as duty to observe.
His enemy passed him, but soon re-.
turned to seize him by the left calf,
changing to the thigh in an attempt to
carry him off. Thinking her victim
dead, she dropped him from hor mouth,
then struck him with her closed paw
and left him, not, however, until she
had inflicted no less than thirteen
indelible wounds. On being found
by his companions, he helped
them for the moment in binding
up his own wounds, but soon sank into
q kind of delirium. He was put upon
q litter, taken into Chnnar, and by care
and skill enabled in few weeks to re-
sumo his wonted occupation.