The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-29
IsE TIGER.HUNTER OF MADRAS.

looa one afternoon, in conversation
With the station agent, freight No. 13,
from Madras, came on to the sliding
opposic to wait for the Bombay express
t pass Attached to the long train of
ice cars, were several fats, some with
adsks" on them, others with palan-
guins, and on the hindermost very
eidlooking object which at once at
acted our attention-the more that
here seemed to be man inside it.
AWhat have you got on that rear car.
TalesPa my friend the agent called out
b the conductor of the freight.
you've got me nowr' replied that
oGeial, with a laugh. $. That's non-,
deSTipt. No name on it. Billed to
Taoodian. Walk up and see for your
RlEes, gentlemen. That is the shipper
inside; name, Geeter Zoons Joogr, by
hndea tiger killer. But you won t find
him talkatiye.p
The nondescript'' was a round,
age-like structure, some twelve feet in
diameter, by six or seven in height. The
bottem was of heavy black timber. and
the hat top of the same, but not quite
massive, while the sides were of
ihiek, straight, brown bamboo rods, or
bars, set upright like stanchions in the
Haek bed-pieces, with spaces betwixt
hem four or five inches wide. In
hort, it was q heavy, round cage, made
years and years ago, and of curious
Earkmanship.
But the old native inside it was astill
geater curiosity. He was arrayed in a
dirty blue cotton frock, and drawers
o. RtrOwsers, of the same stuff. His feet
.ere bare such feet! They were so
shrnnken and bony, and of such shiny,
slne-brown hue, as to give one. the idea
nat they had been calcined over slow
ire.
The man was re-headed, too. and
xhat IS not common among Hindoos,
as hair, thin and in part gray, was
braided in acue down his back.
The tightness of the skin across his
Hcwsgave to his countenance strange
! mummifed expression, hardly re-
aesed by the deep, dull. black eyes and
coarse, thin eyebrows; while the lower
Psn Of his face was curiously marked
WIN still coarser crinkled hairs, too
Ns.lerlng to be called a beard.
ns general complexion was like an
ela' wIthered walnut. From the elbow
ao8n, his arms were bare; and they
seemed mere parcels of bone and sinew
@and " tightly up in sun-dried hide,
sniie his lean fingers like claws termi-
aa,ed IN nails an inch or more long.
ilaeed, IN the matter of personal ap-
Eafance, MIR. Geeter Zoom Joogr was
sae OF the strangest uahun,an human
sslags have ever chanced to meet in
my country.
3 oet against the side of the cage were
J. ,so snort spears, or lances, five or six
~ sss IN length, with handles of some
s,aek wood, and thin, sharp, slender
l pants OF bright steel which shone like
aassrs y 4 These blades, or points, were
= u themselves nearly or quite two feet
I'agi a'g altogether very ugly-looking i'm
4. uia not lind him at all cornmunica-
s' sss he sat ON a cane stool, with his
y ~ 70 the bars of the cage, and solaced
ne,, - 'atlgues of his journey with an enor-
"a. my knowledge of Hindustani was not
sss;.nelent ~. to make much impression on
am ~a .. hrst. A few stolid responses
'1,e ~ all that could elicit from him.
W ~ SAD, or rather admitted, that he
,ss I solng to Yuloodian to kill a tiger;
saa II INA, saa1 killing man-eating tigers was
- - p!s. business. Fifty rupees was his price
8 n'ilng dangerous tiger.
ne had made this his business for
fa' fs years, since the Sepoy war.
MAJ 'sle very curious to know how the old
= sa g hunted, and asked permission to
r. h. Y % fuloodian and participate in
rss, ~ auht. To this request he made no
sersr., 81 ~ !. awhile, but upon my urging it
"Ta 1ai tImes. at length said:
aae sat'tb can suit himself.''
ma aus. then the express whistled in.
,S snS = soon as it had passed, the freight
'aoged on. a A'' o''o
pn s tbs !. u the afternoon. after my duties
Eas, ~ section were over for the day, I
Ynlaaup on the s.sway freightn to
bins nalan' sa taking my Remington car~
Il sa saa a stock Of cartridges.
soss sas one OF those little Hindoo vii
s6ss. I oi perhaps two hundred souls,
Iieer.' . 'ne people were prosecuted by d
4 Il state Of things hard to conceive
= america. But in India. where