Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-26
WOMEN AND TIGERS.
A Narrative OF Feminine Exploits
In BaggIng Big Game.

In BaggIng Big Game.
The method of bagging tigers in
Nepaul is peculiar to the country, says
Eva Wyndham Quin in the Nineteenth
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-
gesting the buffalo no 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 huge ring, from which
he has small chance OF escape. AS the
circle contains fairly large piece of
Jungle "shikari' goes in on his Gle.
plant to ascertain exactly where the
tiger is lying, and having found him
at ho mewe-six guns, disposed on three
howdah elephants-adyance for the
fray. Those who are accustomed TO.
tiger shooting and think no more OF
bagging Master Stripes with we'll
placed bullet than most do OF knocking
over u woodcoclk In home cover will
not realize the anxious feeling one ex-
periences when for tho first time one
is perched on top OF an elephant polk
ing about in = thick underground and
expecting TO see tiger bound out at
every bush! At last out he rushes with
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 all
ones nerve to fire and hit him under
such alarming circumstances. But it
is really a case OF now or never, and
take shot at tigeress rs she is gal
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
at our elephant. but only to receive
her death blow from a second rifle in
the howdah. One cannot help feeling
sorry to see such noble beast laid low,
but so great are the rejoicings when
she is brought triumphantly into camp,
thrown across an elephants back, that,
ones regrets are soon forgotten in the
pride and delight of having shot ones
first tiger.
tinue TO have good luck, especially that
Fcu-lOJJoT utJ Wnou, Qulcbly uONluS
across country with a line OF elephants,
we manage to surround five tigers. On
entering the ring we first only catch
sight of one tigress, which is cleverly
hit in the shoulder by Mrs. Durand;
then. to our astonishment 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
bowling. growing, snarling, shout
ing, trumpeting, and firing of of rifles
can never have been heard before.
Wounded and furious the tigers take
refuge in a small nullah, and there is
some difficulty in finishing them off;
but at last all five are ours, and piling
them on to various elephants we return
TO camp in the fading light, the sun
sinking peacefully in glow OF crimson
and gold behind the trees, while the
moon rises in the east and
glints 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
liclsering light the experiment of the
days sport.