Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-09

that of abject fear. Gwal walked past i,s and arouutl us, between tho huts and around them, and the beast gave us attention whatever. It panted, ns after Il hard run, and one could see that it was actually suffer ing. When Gwal had satisfied us, he led the hyena to the outskirts of the village, pointed to the thicket, and exclaimed. "to!" and the beast slunk off as if in fear of it's life.
 "Wonderful! wonderfulw gaspcd each one of us in turn.
 It was more like n miracle. Gwal stood near us, leaning..up against tree as if greatly worn out, and when we went over to him we found him covered with precipitation. The old woman, with whom he made his home, led him away after O little, and we saw no more of him until next morning. Before we turned in for the night the head man told us that at least four man eating tigers had their haunts within q radius of ten miles, and that we should depend upon Gwal and let him manage the campaign against them ss he thought best. There was no need of Gre arms, and Gwal would sooner or later find an occupant for each cage. He talked of caging up full grown tigers as carelessly as another man would of trapping house rats, but he knew the Tiger Man better than we did.
 At sunrise next morning Gwnl was all right. had agreed to pay him SIS per month and his keep when he set out with us This was magnificent sum in the eyes of e native, but I now told him that if he pre- ferred would give him $10o for six tigers. He jumped at the offer, and his very firSt move was to run to the bank Of the river and bargain with tho owner of n rude but sea- worthy barge to float the six cages down to the water on the eastern part of the peninsula for us. The distance by river was all of 100 miles, and there would be eight of us in the party. The owner of the craft agreed to take us and the tigers, feed us well, and en- i,ploy two extra helpers for sum equal to about thirteen American dollars. When l told him would make it $50 he came near sinking down in his astonishment, and for an hour or two moved about like one in 6 dream. Here, then, we prepared our cages, contracted for our passage, and none of us had yet seen so much as the tip end of 6 tigers tail. After breakfast, when we were ready to move, Gwal said to me:
 II know the lair of a couple of tigers It is distant about an hour. I shall go and bring in one. No one must come with me, and you must not lire your guns or make a noise. Let one of the cagss be placed under that tree over there, and in a couple of hours it shall be occupied by a fine tiger. The last time l saw him he had 0 sore ear It should now be we'll"
 It made us stare hard at each other to hear man talking that way, but had the cage carried to the spot designated, and Gwal took his leave of us as if simply going out to search for bee tree. When he had disap- peared the head man advised that the villagers go indoors and keep quiet, and our band was divided in half and placed i'll trees where we could plainly see the cage. Stray rumors of Gwals wonderful magnetic powers had reached the ears of tho three British officers, and they had seen the performance with the hyena with eyes wide open, but they were Skeptlcal as to his powers over a tiger. All oI us were, for that matter. The idea of & man, no matter what gifts he had, bringing fierce man eater to crawl on his belly, was too absurd for belief. But Gwal settled it to our satisfaction as we'll as chagrin. In two hours and twenty minutes after his departure he reappeared, and right at his heels, and acting the same as the hyena had acted, was the largest tiger ever saw. It was plain that the beast was terrorized. A whipped puppy could not have shown more servility Gwal came along at a moderate gait, swinging a hand on either side of him, and apparently paying no heed to the tiger, but all those in our tree were sure we heard him mumbling >~-~ 0A nor to the right nor left, but kept it's head down. As they halted at the cage Gwal threw up his hand, as one does when hc wants dog to jump, and the man eater bounded into the cage and covered in a corner. The native secured the door in a leisurely manner and then approached us. We were now on the ground, and as he carne up we noticed that he was in a tremble and very weak.
 "The other one was not at home, but ] shall have him tomorrow" he said. ''I will now lie down for q little time"
 Could we believe our own eyest Were we dreamlng' There was the living proof ol Gwals wonderful powers, and what could we say' We moved down to the cage to ges closer view of the beast, and the sight oi us and our presence broke the strange spell. For the next half hour the tiger was wild with fury and dozen different times ii seemed to us that he would regain his liberty. Every bar held, however, and he finally tired himself out and became moro quiet. Gwal slept until o'clock in the afternoon when he came forth refreshed and full oi talk The tiger was then raving about hil cage, but the instant the man appeared h< covered and was as quiet as q lamb The next afternoon his mate was brought in as hs had been, and within q week we had fou, tigers We then moved to spot about eighteen miles away, and Gwal brought ir two others, both males. His performance, was the same in each case, and in each cas.
 his demeanor and that of the beast was tn. same. It was magnetism developed to (
 wonderful degree. That single eye of hi was a blaze of fire when he started out. W, could all feel his electricity. Protected as h.
 was, the man had no fear of any living thing and twice l saw him pick up poisonous ser pents and carry them along for half a :z.ile When the six tigers were slowed on tn, barge paid Gwal his s1oO, and added $50 t< | it. He was not to go with us, but in case
 wanted more tigers was to come to him We went down the river safely, and twice ir after years heard from this strange man
 He once shipped me four tigers on specula ,tion, and made e neat sum by it, and the1 came the news of his death-torn 70 pieces b, sa tiger Tho native who gave me the new l explained:
 "When asleep he had no power It was tn,
 fire in his eye which cowed the beasts H,
 fell asleep outside the hut one evening, and .
 tiger crept up and killed him and carriee
 him of. f."-New York Sun.