Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-20
WOMEN AND TIGERS.
A Narrative OF Feminine Exploits
In Bagging Big Game.

The method OF bagging tigers in
Nepaul is peculiar TO the country, says
Eva Wyndham Quin in the Ninet zenith
Century. and has this great advantage
that one is nearly always successful In
shooting any tiger which has been mark
down. Our friend who is quietly di-
costing the buffalo he ate last night
must be lying not far from his kill. So
we advance with some two or three
hundred elephants in line and grad
ually close in upon him, shoulder To
shoulder, in a huge ring, from which
he has small chance OF escape. As the
circle contains fairly large piece OF
Jungle ii ''shikari' goes in on his Gle
plant TO ascertain exactly where the
tiger is lying, and having found him
ut no mewe-six guns, disposed on three
howdah elephants advance for the
fray. Those who are accustomed to
tiger shooting and think no more OF
bagging Master Stripes with well
placed bullet than most do OF knocking
over IA wOodcock in a home cover will
not realize the anxious feeling one ex-
periences when for tho first time one
j. perched on top of an elephant, polk
ing about in thick underground and
expecting to see "a tiger bound out at
every bush. At last out he rushes with
II mighty roar, and dashes round and
round the ring, vainly trying to force
his way through, while all the ele-
plants trumpet loudly, with their
trunks in the air, and their mahouts
shrek and yell. so that one requires al
ones nerve TO fire and hit him under
.1n.. al, 80 IL -
is really a case OF now or never, and |
take shot at tigeres, rs she Is gall
Looping by, and am lucky enough to hit
her in the back with my first shot, and
again in the shoulder with my second
one, whereupOn she charges straight
ut our elephant, but only to receive
h r. death blow from second rifle in
the howdah. One cannot help feeling
sorry to see such "a noble beast laid low,
but so great are the rejOicing5 when
she is brought triumphantly into camp.
thrown across an elephants back, that
one S regrets are soon forgotten in the
pride and delight Of having shot ones
first tiger.
After this first days sport we con-
tinue 70 have good luck, especially that
red-letter day when, quietly moving
across country with line OF Elephants,
we manage to surround five tigers. On
cnte ring the ring we first only catch
sight of one tigresS, which is cleverly
hit in the shoulder by Mrs. Durand;
then, TO our establishment, tigers seem
to crop up in all directions-one pair
of green eyes. glare from beneath the
grass at one point, and then yet an
other pair few yards on. so that
finally we realize there are four big
cubs, besides the tigress, galloping
among our elephants in the ring. Such
IA bowling, growing, snarling, shout
ing, trumpeting, and firing OFF of rifles
can never have been heard before.
Wounded and furious the tigers take
refuge in small nullah, and there is
some difficulty in finishing them off;
but at last all five are ours, and piling
them on 10 various elephants we return
TO camp in the fading light, the sun
sinking peacefully in IA glow OF crimson
and gold behind the trees, while tAe
moon rises in the east and
glint5 through the dark boughs
as we wend our way home.
BY the campfire are laid out our five.
tigers, and it is with some pride We
examine their soft, golden winter coats
and discuss again and again by the
licke ring light the experiment OF the
days sport.