Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-18
KILLING A TIGER.
An Exciting Hunt-The Fate of Man. Eater

An Exciting Hunt-The Fate of a Man-Ea
[Sydney (Australia) Town and County Journal.l
A deep growl ahead of US and rust
ling in the bushes announced than 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,
being I supposed startled by an alarm in
the camp. Of course the groom was per
fectly dead. The crushing blow which
he had received at the instant Of the IL
ger spring had crushed his head into q
hundred pieces, driving some OF the bones
of the skull even through the skin of the
neck; in 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 crowdIng up
as near to the tents as possible. After
daylight the grOoms started off to recover
our truant steeds; 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 beaters 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 couple of shikarrees to form
line across the tar end of the ravine into
which he had tracked the man-eAter,
while we, shouldering our rifles, and ac-
companied by cur 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 Fl.
was seated in the fork OF a tree command
ing gully to the right of the gorge, up
which it was thought the brute might
steal away, while l was perched On
rock luckily sheltered from the burning
sun by an overhanging tree), 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
rock to climbing tree, as in the latter
case you have not the ssame 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-eater had
come. On came the line of bearers up
the gorge, nearer and nearer, and get 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 adj
vaDced to within quarter of mile of
our posts, when l noticed a challoO wave
his turban and point down toward Major
H, and in 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
ly, 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 adj
vancing between Howard and me, and
presently saw Towards rife quickly
raised, and again were the shots answered
by the welcome roar. Turned from his
course, he made for the spot almost on
which / was stationed, as l could make
out by the signals of the excited chakoos,
but as yet l could neither get a 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
ly stalked, evidently hard hit, and, as he
stopped and looked over his shoulder In
the direction of the line of beaters, his ex-
preston of cOuntenance was anything
but amiat4e At this second l let him
have two shots about the point Of the
shoulder, which dropped him, but only
for second, for recovering himself, he
attempted a charge; but bis 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 a second or two,
during which time he received two OF
more shots from Howard, which broke
his spine, when he fell backward and ex-
PRED.