Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17
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The Intermittent Light Served to Show
the Game to the Hunter.
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The Intermittent Light Served to Show
the Game TO the Hunter.
From tho Calcutta Asian.
Not only is Saugor Island beacon
light Of great use to our pilots as they
take their charges in and out through
tho intricate channels leading between
the roaring breakers on the sands, but
it also serves the purposes of the sports
men, employees OF the light house and
the telegraph office in procuring fresh
supplies of good vension when perhaps
the stores of provision in their larder
have run low, but which they would
not so readily get were the light a fixed,
and necessarily much DINNER one in
stead of q flashing one.
This light oscillates over consider.
able arc and throws concentrated beam
across the roadstead about every half
minute which is of sufficient bright
ness to throw the shadow Of ones hand
against the cabin bulkhead even off in
the roads at II distance Of "a to miles.
Now, in the dry season OF the year, as
at present,when oil the rain-water pools
have dried UP, aud the salt water from
the sea communicates all the water of
the tidal creeks, the deer, hogs and
tigers, with which all these low-lying
Sunderland Islands abound, get hard
pressed for drinking water, and conse-
quently arc not slow to discover the
Whereabouts of the reserve tanks which
have been dug in the vicinity of the
station.
So the lighthouse people, taking adj
vantage of this fact, do little shikar
after nightfall, and for that purpose
have built small hiding place in the
shape of q loopholed mud hut on the
eastern edge OF the tank, the tank being
between them and the sea, and the
lighthouse being some 400 yards off
The hut is just large enough for two
men to stow themselves away in, and
the darker the night the better for their
purpose. The deer, though naturally
tlmld animals, soon get used TO the regu-
lar bright flash of the bacon light as the
fefiectors swing round and round, and
with cautious tread they wand their
way generally toward the far edge Of
the tank.
Meanwhile the two occupants of the
nut are on the alert, and as they observe
their prey approach hardly dare draw
breath for fear of the smallest sound
alarming them, for the deer have very
acute hearing. Their guns are giaspcd
and ready, and their eyes are eagerly
watching the deer's cautious advance
toward the tank EACH time the we'll
timed flash lights up the dark bodies.
1t nears the long coveted draught and
stretches forth its neck, but Just as its
famished lips are dipping into the cool
water there is another flash from the
light
Now is the time for action, and Just
as the timid creature raises its head to
stare at the light two triggers are pulled
and gro the quickly recurring dark
period has had time to swing round
again, and the echoes of the two gun
reports have had time to come from the
ship at anchor, while the puffs of
smoke steal slowly away over the low
jungle scrub, the next flash of light
discloses the form of fine spotted deer
stretched lifeless on the grass by the
edge of the clear water which had lurcd
it TO its fate. Sometimes hogs, and, but
very rarely, even tiger, put in an ap.
pcarance, to be bagged in like manner.