The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-02-17
A HUNTRESS OF INDIA.
Her Victorious Encounter with 9
Savage Man Eater.

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| tinction Of being one Of the few ladies
/ who have sought for and found q Eenu-
inc nan-eating tiger and laid the king OF
! tha jungle low, unaided by hunters Of
the sterncr sex Mrs. Salmon has had
the pleasure Of bagging two of these
fierce brutes, and has also shot a
panther and any number of smaller
/ fry, such as jackals and deer.
Mrs Salmon is at present visiting
some old friends in San Francisco. and
told q reporter the story of how she
shot and killed a ten-foot man eater up
in the Nilgherry hills, in the Madras
district
q first went to India in 1883, and
during the seven years of my stay
there travelled nearly all the time
My husband was continually on the
move, and / was always with him when
possible.
Before went 10 India passed two
years ia the western part of the United
States, and had learned to use rifle
pretty well, and often tried my skill
on jacl1als deer and such animals as we
met on our trips from place to place
through the jungle. The hills around
the sanitarIum are covered with heavy
brush and long grass, and as rule are
rather free from tigers. but that sum
mer the heat was SO great that, Ike
ourselves, the big man-eaters sought
the hills, and soon after we got settled
down the natives began to bring in
stories OF tigers which had been seen
in the vicinity.
My favorite weapon was an Ameri-
can Winchester repeating rifle-one Of
those 44-caiiber guns which seem to be
a favorite with American hunters Be-
sides this had heavier rifle also a
Winchester--and it was with this rifle
that | bagged my big tiger.
During the summer of 1886 party |
of my husbands friends, who were
stopping at the Ootacamund sanitari-
UNI, way up in the Nilgherry hills, in
vited us up on a visit, and, as the heat /
in the lower country was simply ter
rihc, we gladly accepted the invitation.
Little was thought of the story until |
one morning when the mail carrier
failed to appear, and when little
leather pouch in which he carried his
etters and his stick OF bells used to
scare away wild animals in the Jungle
we're found in the road about eight
niles from the sanitarium, the gentle
men began to clean up their guns and
ak tiger
Several hun ting parties went out,
out in spite of the most thorough search
lot a single tiger could be found, and
hen the excitement began to die down
The birthday of one of the gentlemen
vas celebrated by a picnic to spot on
he banks of the Pycarra river about
WE'VE miles from the sanitarium,
where we intended staying week.
he camp, which consisted of seven
ents, was set up in the widest spot
imaginable, and we had very pleasant
ime until the fourth day, when Capt.
Jays, who went out cunning with an
Their gentleman, had the misfortune !
> fall in hullah and injure himself
) badly that he could not get out. His I
hurried back to camp for
ssistance, and as the scene of the ac- :
dent was not mSre than half mile {
ON the camp, all the gentlemen went :
long, leaving the ladies in care of a
ouple of men servants 9
Thinking that hot water might be 9
,quired when Capt Rays was brought
, camp, one of the ladies sent An n
Tony, one of the servants, to the river,
ot more than one hundred yards Z
way, to I'LL water jar. A few mo- t.
ents after the servant had started we u
ere startled by wild cry for help,
i'd then all was quiet again. Think
q that the man had been attacked by
jaelsal, / seized my heaviest gun and "
n down the path toward the river. tt
he low brush hid everything from my N
ght, until had reached point bout ST
venty yards from the river, and there
saw something that made me tremble II
it'll fear. Ii
There on the bank OF the river lay pl
'or Anthony, and by his side, licking a.