Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
II n e INDIAN TlGER
More Formidable and Much More Courageous
Than the Lion.
A Maintaining Tigress Teaches Her
Whelps to Hunt by Bringing
Them Live Prey.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Speaking of the tiger, he is easily tn,
king of all the feline family said Sidney
Castron, who arrived in New York last
week from Calcutta, and last night was
telling jungle stories to some friends ''iie
can whip a lion, hands down, as has been
shown in every case reported where the
two have come together on fair terms. The
tiger is as strong and heavy as the lion, is
swifter, more ferocious and more danger
aous. He is thorough Asiatic in his traits.
being subtle, crafty and recklessly brave and
cowardly by turns with the trouble for the
hunter that he never can tell when he
Pushes tiger which way the brute will
run, whether from him or for him. In a
fighting temper a tiger will turn upon the
hunters beating the jungle on elephants
leap upon the head or shoulder of the near
est elephant and make things very unpleas-
antly lively for the man upon his back. A
tiger has been known to charge stra ght
upon a full battalion of soldiers and come
near to breaking it's formation before ae
could be disposed of. Gen. Wolseley in a
published account of his march with a de-
tacnment to the relief of Gen. Haveloch in
the Indian mutiny, tells how during a n.ghS
march, tiger sprang into the midst of his
column upon bullock attached to an am
| munition wagon and attempted to carry 1t
away The cutlery and flashing of torches
oioNt lI-t Tiger from the bullock, but ne
| did not quit the field, but remained stand
| ing under a tree in full view, glaring at
the procession until 1t had marched by As
every cartridge and every minute was
| precious, the order was given that no shot
be fired at the tiger.
Mine times out of ten on the other hand
| the tiger when hunted will run stra ght
away, or sneak and double in the thick jun
gle IN the effort to escape. In a bit of
cover he will lie as close to the ground as
M
stones by the line OF heaters will not start
him unless he is actually hit. In hunting
the tiger on foot ii is usual to station the
iookouts in trees to watch for the first ap-
pearance of the beast. If one of them sees
tie tiger trying to steal past him he has
only TO break a dry stick sharply in two
ana the cracking sound will turn the tiger
back. In short, when the brute once ge;s
scared and suspicious he is one of the big
gest towards alive, who will stand wounds
without coming to a fight. though none
the less he always is dangerous when driven
to bay with show of escape.
THE tiger at all times is very liable to
panic when confronted suddenly by any
thing which he does not understand. The
opening of a paraSol by lady has been
known TO stampede a charging tiger, and
an experience somewhat similar occurred
with a missionary whom / knew, who told
me the story. He was crossing a patch of
open country on foot when he saw a tiger
one side He had show to run or fight.
and so he did the only thing that occurred
to him 10 do. and, dropping on his knees.
prayed loudly. 1t was a performance evil
IDENTIFY new TO the tiger which reused his
suspicious. for he stopped. sheered away
and at last went back into the jungle. An
other instance was that of a civil official
coming suddenly upon a tiger in the jungle.
Both were taken equally by surprise. and
when the man yelled out Scat the big cat
turned tail and sneaked away.
LAS is generally known, a man-eating
tiger is usually old beast which has got
past his time for catching game and so
seeks an easier prey in human beings. But
tigers born of a man-eating tigress are al
ways man-eaters. for they get their first
lessons in hunting from their mother. =
tiSress teaches her whelps TO hunt as a cat
does her kittens. by bringing them live prey
to practice upon. Ten years ago. in one
OF the hill districts of India tigress was
killed, whose taking off caused much re-
Jo-cinS among the natives. and was told at
length in many of the Indian and English
newspapers. She was known all over India
as the man-eater who once had given her
wheips live man to play with. She car
RED of the man from an open hut in the
forest where some woodcutters were sleep
ing. His companions took refuge in trees
and from their place of safety saw her take
the man alive to where the whelps were
waiting close by, and lay him down before
them. As the man attempted to crawl
away the Wheips would cling to his legs
with teeth and claws, the tigress looking
on and pnrring with pleasure Whenever
the man got too far away from the tigress
she would bound after him and bring him
BACK When the whelps had had enough of
tneir sport the tigress sprang upon the
man. and holding him down with her fore
paws; began her meal from his living