The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-13

gaining his party the tiger carried of q
young woman who was walking along q
path not fifty yards from the village where
she lived Two men were not more than a
dozen yards behind her " hen the beast
sprang out from under a korinda bush,
seized the woman by the neck and carried
her on as easily as though she had been q
partridge or rabbit.
BY daylight the next morning we were
on his track and followed it for half a mile
20 where, at the side OF great rock, he had
devoured all he cared to OF the body OF his
victim. Poor girl she was to have been
married that day week. at any rate that's
what the head man Of the village told US.
Half a mile further on there was a patch
OF jungle and the shikarry tracked the beast
quite near the edge aud was satisfied that
our game was concealed somewhere in the
thicket. Our party was not large enough to
surround the jungle, and we sent to the
nelghboring villages and obtained as many
men as we could to act as beaters and
trlghtea the animal out so that we could get
a shot at him."
was about TO ask why they did not go
directly into the Jungle and shoot him in his
lair. The captain anticipated my inquiry as
he Immediately Continued:
IF we had wanted to commit suicide we
would have gone into the jungle a nd hunted
the fell Nv out lis a very unsafe thing to
do, as the tiger sees you long before you can
possibly see him, aud If he has no good way
OF escape he will turn the tables on you
without asking your leave. Almost from
under your feet he will rise and make a
spring at you and there Is rarely time TO use
your rifle as he comes on. Many hunter
has left his bones in India by following a
tiger into the jungle, and especially by going
there in pursuit of one that he has
wounded.
"In little more than an hour we had the
jungle surrounded by the heaters; Thomson
and | selected our stands, about fifty yarde
apart, ~nere We thought the beast would
try TO escape. and then the signal was given
for the heaters to begin. They made a
great noise with drums aud tom toms, they
threw stones into the thicket, and every
little while they fired off their old muskets
to add to the tumult. On the side where
Thomson and were stationed there was no
noise, as we wanted the tiger to believe that
all the danger lay where the racket was
being made and so he would run in our d.
recti)h.
"The man eater came out Of the Jungle,
not creeping stealthily as we had expected,
but making great bounds into the air at the
top Of his speed. Thomson fired and so did
/; but neither of our shots was fatal, though
both took effect With a roar that seemed
to shake the ground the brute turned aud
sprang at Thomson-sprang upon him and
threw him to the ground, and then grasped
him by the throat ard shook him as a cat
shakes a mouse. dared not fire for fear Of
hitting my friend; but | stood with my rife
ready for a shot the moment the tiger should
drop his victim. Thomson made no move
ment; quite likely he was killed by the first
blow Of the tiger or stunned by the fall. and
il not then stunned he was certain to have
hpan nj Nv ba ho b ho
received. The habit of all animals of the
cat species to shake their prey is really a
merciful one, as it stupeties them and so rem
deTs death painless. Several hunters who
have been rescued from the jaws of the
tiger have said that they were without sen
sation after the beast had shaken them in
the way have told you.
The tiger dropped Thomson and raised
its head, and then I fired in the hope OF
making deadly shot. Then the beast
turned on me and l got in another shot
which stopped it for a moment, just long
enough for me TO spring into the branches
of a small tree under which / was standing
In springing there l dropped my rifle and
50 found myself without a weapon other
than the knife in my belt.
THE tiger tried to reach me in the tree.
He might have done so had not one of his
fore legs been shattered by bullet, prob
ably the last one fired. There was great
cash across his head, but it was only a skin
wound, the thick skull having glanced away
the bullet like the side of Sdnboat. Then
there was wound across his back, but
could easily see that it was not serious. A
tiger will stand d great deal of lead In him,
and, on the other hand, he is easily killed
IL you can only touch certain parts.
HE crouched at the foot of the tree when
he found he could not reach me, and there
he lay growing, lashing his tail from side
to side, and every few moments giving a
roar that could be heard for long distance.
If had not lost my rife 1 could have set
tied him very quickly, but TO attack him
with the knife would have been madness,
and my only hope was in the shikarry
hearing the roar aud coming to my aid. 1
knew none OF the other natives would ven
ture in the vicinity, and already the most
of them had quite likely taken to their heels
and fed to their villages
THE shlkarry came as | hoped and ex-
pected. As he approached indicated by
signs for him to take Thomson's rifle, which
was more effective than his own. and finish
the boast. He nodded compliance. took the
rifle from the ground where it lay. filled
the magazine from the pouch Of cartridges
on the body of my dead comrade, and then,
while held the attention of the tiger by
making menacing motions and pretending
that | was about to descend to the ground,
the hunter crept to within twenty yards of
the tree and stretched the animal lifeless
with bullet through his heart Another
bullet followed, and also another to make
sure work, and then | came to the ground
to measure my late ANTAGONIST.
"From tip to tip he was l / feet IL inches
in length, tie longest tiger by more than
twelve inches that ever secured. 1t WAS
fully ten minutes from the time l sprang
into the tree until the shikarry came in
sight, and the longest ten minutes ever