The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-12-11

Capturing So.ad Man Eaters.
4 SHIRT thlnk-se+ nan Nth dark HGS
EarEe IN vblcb he gray hairs we're beginning
~ appear pretty tn5ckly sat n the rDt@nda
III the Pairne- bD1ss the ctGeT s7sn5nz 10
YAK AZ him ora nou]d not think there Tas
srythinz very remarkable ia his spf@arsncs,
tut ne mas all the same, one II The b<est znpTn
shikarris IL .hs far Fast, famous Throughout
-ndia and sgruah ~ the mist deadly tiger
INT since The days IT Gordon Cumming
Wherever the camp FIRE Is 81 and tne days
sport IL beng ts!lsd OYER some anecdDte n
Jack" AIgeT il sIrs N bs introduced
gTgaT AC-sCAITTA yCz WITH THE TJGZg-
Ny first Acquaintance with the tiger IN
his natural STATE .aid Nr AIzsr, IN reply ~
a rsqUest fDr . yarn ~Has made IL ths
iuugles II The Terra. They are hard bealsts ~
tsrkte, especially the man eaters, and thDss
Who have engaged in tiger sHDDtinZ, either
On fDot or IN elephants, knO~ fDd vel hon
many shots the brute sometimes taxes
Where population il exceedingly scaFcs tho
tiger lcsxs much u hjz skUIxHZ, hiding dis
position, and attacks his prey IN the open
knew once II a lad -bsrr!inZ cattle vino Vas
pursued over a n1eadon and through the herd
and was killed By the tiger, wh0 nad begun
" eat him, when scared away By the villagers.
T saw the body; u lay ~ tns rudst III an
Op<an field 81 Iea5t IN yards from any cover
Il vas dissmboveIsd, with the chest torn
vide OI<u, but the face vas 81 that III one
vino lies in p pleasant sleep.
The enormous forearm Of the tiger has at
tractsd attention You have seen a cat pat
a dead rnOuse Or the fascs IL p dug that mas
teasing her, and il IS easy n understand what
q Tremendous blow tiger could give in tins
same manner but believe it a mistake ~
suppose that he strikes down his prey With
his paw He strikes In self-defense and when
fighting, but not wbsn seizing his victim.
have sesn many carcasses ri deer, cattle, bur
faIDss and horses which had been killed by
tigers, and they all had the same appearance
-four deep holes at the back IF the neck
Knnds by the animals inCisOr teeth; no other
mark, and Of course if the tiger had begun 10
feed on the bO1y 10 vas extensively liberated.
And If the prey had struggled much and had
succeeded ln dragging the tiger few yards
the chest and fOrelegs would bear the inpres-
sion Of the claws and the tremendous grip,
but these, a. far as my experience goes, were
exceptional cases.
1T Is evident that the tiger, in selling his
prey, PUSHES onto It's back, grips the neck
with his jaws as with vie, and with
his arms combining the animals struggles, lies
there upon It's victim until ID Is suffOcated.
With a human being 10 is different. tiger
has been sesn 10 seizs and cnrry off a man by
tho NECK, or tne arm, or Jnigii lHnlIIeISnLly.
SEARCH IN THE JUNGLE.
II was out once after n tiger on foot, and,
having wounded him severely, was searching
for him in the jungle with number Of
heaters. Three times We came upon him, and
each time be broke cover by charging through
chs mob of us. Once he struck a man on tho
chest, knocking him over, and scratching rim
severely. Next time he seized ono Of the
beaters in bis jaws, by the thigh, giving him
a rapid shake and passing on. But these arc
all cases in which ths animal was acting in
sslf-defei,se, or in retaliation. What / have
said before refers TO its usual mode Of cap
turing food.
ave are told in natural history books that
the tiger disdains 70 touch Carrion. This is
not so. Tho SANS thing Is said in regard TO
the eagle and is equally erroneous. The lion
also Is, believe, as little scrupulOus as any
other cat in this particular. / have told you
how the tiger captures and kills his prey.
Whom dead, If the body be convenient TO his
covert, he lets it remain; If it be too far out
I'm the open 10 is dragged further tOwnrd tho
jungle and there lies until dawn. Some
times the body ia disembowled after being
removed little way, and IL then drawn
away 10 some hidden spot. A tiger has been
seen 20 dseInbOwel IA goat, holding it by the
throat lying ON its bnck underneath the
body and ripping it Open by repeated kicks
with its hind claws. He appears 20 prefer
rump steak, or a round, TO any other por-
ton. These are almost always the first part
eaten, then the ribs, rarely the forequarters
and never within my knowledge, the head
81 cannot call TO mind having met in any
book with an accurate description Of the tigers
cries. The snarling and growing Of the ami
NAL when stirred up with a long pole is
familiar to all who have visited a menagerie,
and appears to be the only noise the creature
makes when i'm "A state of captivity; but in his
native forest, in the long nights of the cold
season when the woods on the hills seem to
sleep in the moonlight, the tiger, striding along
In his native forest news like an old tom cat
or rather like IA hundred old tom cats in
chorus. II is a loud and harsh and grating
meow. IL Is seldom heard more than twice or
thrice When the tiger Is on the lookout for
food, usually in the evening, he lies silent and
motiOnless in some dense covert close 20 water,
where animals resort TO drink, and when one
of these approaches near enough he bounds
out on his prey in perfect silence, or with an
abrupt, sonOrOus grUnt, terribly startling,
which appears 90 paralyse the victim and de
prive II Of i power to fly or resist Chicago
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