The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-06

hieat, Dut the lions would not enter IL
AFTER it had been unvisited for tw,
oaVs took my gun and started in tba
direction. This was at about te,
O'Clock In the morning. approached
'he trap from the side where the doc,
was htted and peered in, to find tn,
oa't untouched. As Strengthened VI
one oil the biggest lions ever saw
q turned the corner of the pen, and
we were face to face. I think he had
oeen lying in the shade on the othe,
side. had my gun in my left hand
and realized that any movement on
my part would be a signal for him to
attack. The lion was as much aston
lshed as l was. Indeed. his first idea
was to drop his tail and bolt. At first
could have put my right hand out and
ialo 1t on his nose, but presently
ne smiled at me and backed of to a
distance OF about ten feet and then
stood and stared at me. ! stared back.
Is was the only thing I could do. He
was neither hungry nor petulent, and
he finally lay down and rested his head
on his paws and kept his great yellow
eyes steadily fastened to mine. stood
Ike stone for about ten minutes.
Then sank to my knees, feeling that
II did not | should soon lose nv eoui-
librium. As l went down he rose up
with menacing growl and seemed
about to spring, but as | remained
quiet he sank down again and resumed
his stare.
was dangerously fascinated BY the
stare OF this beast, and by and by |
felt a strange exultation and wanted to
shout and wave my hands. l really
believe | should have advanced upon
him had we been left uninterrupted
two minutes longer. One of the ma
tives followed after me, and as the
sound OF his footsteps in the brush
reached the lions ears he whined and
seemed uneasy, and finally made bolt
for the thicket. | was still on nv
knees when the native came, and was
so weak all day that | remained in
camp.
Near kharme, in Burmah, some ma
lives once came about twenty miles to
beg OF me to return with them and rid |
their village of the presence of man
eating tiger | went with them in |
hopes to catch the beast alive. We
found his lair in a mass OF rocks in the |
midst OF thicket, and also the water
hole from which he quenched his
thirst We dug pit in the path he
used, but every beast, except the one
wanted, fell into it. therefore deter
mined to shoot the tiger as no came to
drink. One night, when he had killed |
and partially devoured COW early in
the evening, l took a native and re-
paired to the water-hole. 1t was then
eleven o'clock at night, and the tiger
might be expected along at any mo-
ment. first took position under
tree just above the water, but after
few minutes moved ten feet to the left,
and gave the native my place. We
were armed with shot-guns heavily
charged, and intended to kin the tiger
1T the first fire whether we saved an
inch of his skin or not. We had been
in place about fifteen minutes when
The native suddenly shrieked out that
he tiger had got hold of him. II
'prang up, and it was not so dark but
hat / could make out some animal
haking and worrying him. Ishouted
md ran forward, and as the beast
upon me l fired and rolled
lin over. The native was not dead,
,ut SO badly wounded that he
ived only two days. l supposed,
IT course, that he had been attacked
" the tiger, but when l came to
trike light and investigate discov-
red that l had killed panther. The
east was perched on a limb OF the l.
rec directly over the spot l had at
rst selected, and had l retained it he a
7ould have made me his victim in 8
lace OF the native.
One more instance; was out one day
nth native in the province of Siam,
'oking up the lair Of panther which
ad worked great havoc, when we sat I
own in the shade to rest. had been
p the night before, and soon fell into
browse. The man dared not awaken
le, and yet was too cowardly to re-
lain beside me. He therefore quietly
limbed tree, and l went sound I
sleep. had been in this condition
alf an hour, according to his calcula-
on, when great rock snake came
ut OF ledge few yards away and
pproached me. This species of SER
ent is kin to the pythons and anacon-
rs, only much more fierce and active. u
he native saw, but dared not speak. | /
he aroused me was certain to moev s
nd receive the terrible fangs and the t
eadly embrace. He said that the i
,ake crawled over my legs three or S
'ur times, and twice it seemed on the a
oint of striking me, and had ! moved a
the slightest / would have been t
ade a victim. Happily for me, l t
umbered on; and by and by the SER '
ent went of through the brush, and a
le native dropped from his perch and h
reused me.--N. Y. Sun. b
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