The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1882-05-11
whe IL Was Killed Tn. Tiger

. Not many miles from the Falls OF Mag
ara is stationed Canadian customs official
an e1 Major OF, as he would say Me,io
-of Her Majostys service, In point o
fact he served in a regiment Of Irish mill
tia, aud then crossed the Atlantic TO TAX,
q berth in the customs department Thii
however, does not prevent him from des
canting at length upon his startling ex
periences in.India, the Crimea and yarious
other parts OF the world, whenever he can
obtain an audience. Another veteran,
whose skill with the weapon Of the old
English yeoman was remarkable, Gen. f.,
visited Canada not long ago. and party
OF prominent politicians, aware OF their
fellow failing, eontrived a meeting between
them at dinner, where tho conversation
speedily became animated and took the
direction Of personal adventure.
Very remarkable, indeed" observed
the General, as by way OF a "starter, one
of the party told an anecdote of an escape
from an infuriated buffalo. "in fact II re-
minds me Of a most singular occurrence
that happened to myself in India Hem
II was about lSi7, and the Forty eleventh
the fighting Forty. eleventh, as it was
called-was stationed at Cundebund, up
in the Bogomaroo country, when one day a
delegation of head men came in to ask the
al Gal. 4 IL.
TO go with them and kill royal Bengal
man-eater that had been infesting their
district for years. 1t was lonely, out-of. |
the-way place, and no European had ever
visited it, and, being rather an adyentur.
GUS young chap, begad, gentlemen, vol
unteered for the job and accompanied the
poor natives back through the jungle.
Well, the eyentful day came; they marked
down the brute in patch of Jungle, and
the whole able-bodied population turned
out with tom-toms aud mangoes and other
instruments to make him break
cover, The way to the jungle was up
mullah the dried.up bed of mountain
ayah-"
Dongas, we used to call EN- in South
Africa, interiected the Meejor
Precisely. Well, | was walking in
front, and dozen shikarries were follow.
ng, carrying my guns, ammunition,
lookah, and SO on, when, gentlemen, we
heard u roar like cataract, md begad
hat royal Bengal man-eater came Eolting
,ut OF the jungle and charged down that
nullah like whirlwind. Nineteen feet
rom nose to tail, and as tall as an ele-
'hant. Begad, the cowardly shikarries
ave one whoop and cut it, and there was !
ours truly left facing the infuriated
'east with no other weapon than bamboo
ane. 1t was the tightest place ever was
u; but the honor of the Caucasian race :
nd the fighting Forty y-eleyenth was in my
ands, and | advanced on the brute Z
bout forty feet from me, he gathered u
imself for a spring, and at that moment, q
entlemen there came shot from a clus- v
"a Va Piuuthiu puiuh ol tuc IIBuii hHu
lat royal Bengal man-eater fell dead at u
~ feet-shot through the eye" u
Very remarkable indeed" g
"But, gentlemen, the remarkable part OF "
le'story is yet to come. We hurried to sc
lat clump of trees to see who this marks n
ian could be, and not trace Of him u
ould we find. The head men swore by N
] the incarnations of Vishnu that no c'
uropean Sahib had ever been in their NJ
1untry, and from that day TO this have oi
ot known to whom | owed my preserya- ~
on" bi
General, said the Meejor, solemnly, u
was the mani III
1t was terrible shock to the General,
ut he recovered promptly to embrace his
reseryer and invite him, whenever he was ~
assing through Cumberland, to stop at -
istle Carnfelly and see the skin Of the -
wal Bengal man eater, nineteen feet from :"
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