The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-09

Marvellous are the escapes from
tigers. Colonel Warren, of the Ben
gal army, was carried off. but killed
the tiger by means of pistol he had
with him, ! believe; and many other
sportsmen have recovered after being
severely mauled. But the most ex-
traordinary escape was Captain
Hills, who, while leading a party OF
police, was attacked by a noted man
eater in the Yonzalee1 Hills, and had
stand-up fight. The tiger pinioned
his arm to his side, put his paws on
Hills shoulders and stood over him
open-mouthed, while Hill endeav-
ored to strike him with his left arm
over the right shoulder. With u
fendish growl the tiger sn pped
down on his victims neck, who for
tunately fell at tlat moment. Thus
only the upper fangs penetrated and
the tiger turned over a complete
sommersault, and when the man
and tiger faced each other again the
biped had apparently been converted
into quadruped, as he was on his
hands and knees, and the blood
pouring down his face and beard
gave him, | have no doubt, dia-
bolical expression-or at all events
the tiger seemed to think so, FOR he
put his tail between his legs and ran
for his life. This tiger afterward
killed a Karen, and was shot over
the body by means of two guns tied
near it with string attached to the
triggers, fastened over the path he
was expected by. To show the au-
dacity of the tiger may briefly re-
late the following 'Our thirty-sixth
native Infantry was enroute to Ber-
hampore, and an officers servant
who, with the mems kit had, as is
often the case, preceded the corps to
the next camping ground-was, just
at dusk, and close to the mess guard,
carried off the high road by tiger.
An infant he had in his arms when
seized was quite unhurt in the awful
rush that took place. Early next
morning the tracks were followed by
three officers, and as the body had
been very little mangled it was de-
termined to wait for the tigers re-
turn. While a platform was being
got ready one of the party went
back, while the other two sat little
way off to eat their lunch, and their
gun carriers were scattered about
collecting materials for the machan.
While thus employed the tiger car
ried off the body from their midst in
open day, and through not very
thick brushwood, without being OBJ
served. To follow up was useless,
as the body had neither blood nor
rags to leave trace behind. Tigers
were so plentiful close to the large
town of Pegu, in British Burmah,
that many traps We're set for them.
In one, for lack of something better,
DIR. lie Presle, assistant-surgeon OF
her majesty's Eighty-fourth regi-
ment, placed a duck and caught a
big tiger. A officer of the commits
sion, who was sleeping with the
doors and windows Of his bedroom
open, had a powerful bulldog which
was chained to his bed, killed by
tiger by his bedside. When | was
at Banlong, a poor woman who was
sleeping in the veranda of her house
was fearfully clawed, but not bitten
or carried off by tiger. When the
plains of Sylhet are covered with
water tigers ascend the hills, ard are
very plentiful at Cherra Poonghie,
often leaving their marks, not only
within the compounds Of the houses,
but in the verandas themselves, and
no one dare to venture out at night
without tom-toms and torches. At
Soillong we and the Sepoys killed
several on foot one year.-LOndon
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