The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-11
A BLIND TIGERS DECoY.
A Fortunate Hunter Bowls Over the
Terror Of the Jungle.

The great Jhoot demon, described
by Colonel Downing in his narrative of
adventures in India, was tiger whose
ways were as mysterious as his ravsges
were terrible He could never be
bagged. He killed every shikari,
native or European who tried it. This
truCulent beast had never been seen,
and, as he never mangled body, but
only sucked the blood through an
orlhce made over the jugular vein, the
terror the great Jhoot demon inspired
is not surprising. He never forced a
door, yet he got into house after house.
Two subalterns went out for him, and
the next day were found dead like the
rest
One with his last strength had man
aged to scratch the words, Look out
for l. But no amount of con.
lecture could solve the riddle of these
words. A famous shot, who once for
a wager shot 100 tigers in twelve
months, met the same fate. He, too,
left creepy and mysterious message
the letters "A. NJ" Then the Col.
onel goes. He built himself an ambush
and watched
ust as the full light Of the moon
fell upon the stream and Illuminated
the surroundings there was an almost
inaudible rustic of leaves close behind
me and turning on the instant l saw a
little gray paw very cautiously
putting aside the twigs of my shelter,
and behind the paw could discern
two small green eyes attentively re-
garding me.
"a lungoor, said TO myself as it
vanished from view-a monkey That's
what the lads and Dick Culverton
meant to tell us, and by George! there's
mischief here Moved by a sudden
inspiration, for which l cannot to this
day account, fastened from the
shelter and assembled the adjoining tree.
| had scarcely time to seat myself COM
fortaby upon one of the lower branches
when | saw the lungoor returning, fol-
lowed by the most repulsive- looking
monster my eyes have ever beheld
"You talk, Snapper, Of your tiger
being NANCY this one was absolutely
naked, nude as a nut, bald as a bottle,
not hair anywhere-a huge, ghastly,
glabrous rnstrosity-a very Calibau
of tigers, as big as bison and as long
as crocodile.
GAS the ghastly creature crept after
the monkey he followed the slightest
curve and deviation of his guide with
the delicate alacrity of a needle under
the influence of a magnate. The ad-
roitness displayed by the tiger was
suddenly converted into subject of
horrified wonder, for as the brute ap-
preached the ambush he turned his
hideous face up to the moon, and |
could see that his eyes were of dull,
dead white, without light, intelligence
or movement. The creature was stone
blind. For all that he evidently knew,
IOi 'iOhShh hS hhNN, Nildt ray
him, for the saliva Of anticipation was
clinging to his wrinkled jaws like mass
of cleaning icicles.
"The monkey, when he had come
within jumping distance, gave a low
signal cry, made one vigorous spring
into my late shelter, alighted upon my
camp pstool and sprang out again on the
other side He was instantly followed
by the tiger, who fell like an avalanche
upon the stool, crushing it to match
wood, and at once began to feel about
on all sides for his expected victim.
"Now was my chance. Beneath me
in the broad light Of the full moon lay
the demon of the Jhoot | aimed
steadily at deep furrow between the
shoulder blades and held my breath
for the shot. At that moment the keen
eyes Of the monkey caught sight Of me
and the little animal uttered a shrill
note # warning; but was too late. My
finger was upon the trigger, and fired
both barrels in quick succession"