The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-04-21
KILLING A TIGER.
An Exciting Hunt-The Fate of Man Eater.

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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 a meal,
beng 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 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; in fact he must have been dead
when ne fell over. The body
was carried back to camp without anv
opposition on the part of the tiger, and
the fires were kept burning till morning,
most of the camp followers crowd1ng 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 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 coupe Of shlkarrees to form
line across the tar end of the ravine into
which he had tracked the man-eater
while we, shouldering our rifles, and &C.
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 H
was seated in the fork OF tree command.
ing gully to the right of the gorge, ur
which it was thought the brute might
steal away, while was perched On q
rock luckily sheltered from the burning
sun by an overhanging tree), on an EN-.
inence juttlng 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 E Same facility in
taking aim that you have when standing
on foot. After some twenty minutes
pause, we heard the heaters begin theil
| 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 ur
the gorge, nearer and nearer, and yet nc
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 heaters were enough to deaf
en- any one near them, and vet no signs
of the tiger. Alreaay had the line ad-
vanced to within quarter of a mile of
our posts, when ] noticed chakoo wave
his turban and point down toward Major
H., and in a minute afterwards saw
that officer raise his rifle and take aim.
It was some little time before he fred,
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