Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-20

until two or three wood -cntters were
picked Of mt the edge Of the jungle; and
then the brute got holder, came out near
er the villages, and carried of two or
three women.
/ mind you, all this wasn't done 70 any
one eiQhborhood, but L. half . dozen
| different localities. sometime miles apart.
| One evening the brute might be seen near
8 certain village. and perhaps before the
| next morning he would p0unce upon
some po0r wretch five or six miles on
When the people saw what q rest
less and hungry brute that fellow was,
YOU have no idea how badly scared they
were Why, it wss perfect reign o.
| terror IN half dozen villages or more
nobody Felt safe for single day. Most
of the cattle-h erders refused to take their
cattle into the jungle any more either
for love or money. and the poor brutcs
nearly starved. No wood-cutter dared
/ 20 into the jungle either, for It would be
| literally walking into the jaws Of death.
Men did not dare to set foot into the
jungle except IN parties OF q dozen or
more.
ssOf course the people stopped going
out after night, but the first thing any
BODY knew the old man-eater came and
took man right out of Doraypore, and
got away with him. There we're big
patches of thick jungle all about, and
! for all the natives could do the tiger was
safe enough. They hadn't gun of any
kind that they could have killed him
with.
81 went out three times. / think, with
lot of good crackers and heaters from
the villages, and we tried our best to bag
the brute, but he was too smart for us.
well, things went from bad to worse
until finally one day party Of men came
up here post-haste to bring word that
the night before the man-eater had &C.
tually carried off the grown-up daughter
Of the headman Of a little village close to
Doraypore. She was seized on her own
door step, just after dark, and carried
off right before her mothers eyes. The
headman begged me to come down and
try once more to kill the brute. Well,
of course dropped everything, got my
rife ready had only one good one then
land went down to DOraypore.
The villagers had marked him down
as closely as they dared in expectation of
my coming. and they knew very nearly
where he was, so early the next morning
with dozen of the best crackers, and
about fifty beaters, we set out. heard
afterward that all the rest of the villa
gers went to their temples that day to
ask their gods to give Us good luck.
THE crackers soon led as to large
patch of thick, matted jungle in which
the tiger was thought to be lying. We
posted several men up in trees to watch
the tiger whenever he ran and mark him
down. After getting up a little, low,
scrubby tree with two crackers, close to
the point where we thought the tiger
would break cover, we gave the signal to
the heaters at the upper end of the
thicket and the beat began The men
worked along slowly, keeping well to-
gether for safety, not making too much
noise, but quite enough to scare any
tiger. The heaters worked along the
edge of the patch, and before they had
gone more than half way down, the man
eater skulked out of the bushes at the
lower end / expected him to come close
to my tree, and he did start for the
nearest cover, which was beyond us, just
as we thought he would, but before he
got within anything like fair range, he
suddenly changed his course, and made
off rapidly in another direction. He
twigged us, you see, and proposed to give
us good wide berth. I drew up and
blazed away at him as he ran-iust for
luck-one barrel after another, but tax
ing all disadvantages together, I missed
both times, and the brute boltcd off at q
lively gate, growing at us until he dis
appeared.
After that we had to track him, and
it was nearly three hours before we final
~ lodged him In another jungle patch.
1t was about the hottest part oi the day,
and he didn't like to move, but the
beaters finally drove him out. This time
he came out precisely where we thought
he wouldn't, and being clear out of our
reach, he skulked off without nv even
firing at him.
He led us a fine chase the rest of that
day until late in the afternoon. Just as
we were talking about giving up the
hunt for that day, and going h 3me, one
of the markers In tall tree nearest the
hills got terribly excited about some
thing, and began to wave his arms about
like maniac, and yelled out to us.
pointing toward the jungle in the direc-
ton the tiger had gone. Presently we
saw cloud Of dust off that way, and q
little later q herd of cattle, rushing
wildly along q road leading from the
jungle toward Doraypore. We supposed
the cattle had met the tiger. and STAN
peded on the spot. AS quickly AZ he
could, the marker slid down out of his
tree, and came running toward as At the