The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-03

1 hut with twelve or fifteen men lying
 about him. having no thought that the
 tiger would venture among them. But
 as soon as the fire before the hut
 burned low the tiger, which must have | been watching and waiting near the 1 camp, came, and threading his way among the sleeping men without walk i Ing lhem sprang upon the slea ping man 1 whom ne had been stalking through the afternoon and tried to carry him off 1 lne struggle ard outcry, of course aroused the camp. and springing to
 thelr Ieet the mans companions, with thel1 machetes and live brands snatched from the fire, succeeded in making the tiger drop his prey and run OH. But the erea ure proWled a5o t the camp all the rest of the night, fre- quently coming plainly into view, and It was only by building several large hres before the hut, with a guard of men remaining awake to replenish them, that the tiger was kept away.
 Tn the morning none of the men dared to leave the camp. At about two o'clock the foreman who had gone away the day before, taking with him the only gun in the outfit, returned to
 
 near It that none of the men was at work, and hastened his steps to find out what the trouble was Just before coming to the clearing he chanced to raise his eyes, and there, on the low Hhlp CT a tree oyerhanging the path, he saw panther tiger lying crouched, WatchlnG the camp so intently that it seemed not to notice him. The chance TOT a disahlins shot was perfect, and at twenty paces away the foreman sent in an ounce bullet from one barrel and charge Of buekahot from the other, aiming filst behind the tigers left shoulder. The tiger came to the ground With a broken shoulder and a pulet in his body that must have ieached the heart but with these set pdCks ne was so lively that he kent ina foreman lodging about behind trees while the men at the camp stayed away at sale distance, for several minutes peiore he dropped and died I saw the tlser skin year after this eccurrs nee ana heard the story I have just F lated rom the foreman. The skin had rrob- apIy stretched some in the process of aresshs it. At this time it measured me feet and two inches from tin to fin.
 IhlF sanguinary beast having nyaa HIS eye upon the man, who had gone t, explore for timber, had followed him toi at least six hours in daylght. leay- Ing unmolested the scattered party of ruppel gatherers, whom he must have tlihen aside to avoid, and the boz and heru or goats that offered him an easv and Immediate victim. Never ra,in. quishing his pursuit. he had waited near the camp until all was stiu and uark' and then from among fifteen men mad searched out and seized him. and was still watching for the selected vic thh When shot It was a striking in starce of the persisteney in pursuit If a prey once marked for slaughter that ch&r&cterizes i the members, small ana great, of the feline genus.
 To try to hunt the panther-tlger as the lcWland jaguar is hunted with ti ger hounds, is next to useless Tn the rough, rocky country in which ne makes his home, he will travel away at q speed which leaves the hunters hopelessly behind, and 1t is rarely that the dogs can come up with him. If they do, it means some dogs killed ''NA' '''N tetHtttNi dSudlly gone DptOrG the hunters can arrive on the scene sometimes the ranchmen trap or poi son the panther-tiger to stop his ray ages among their stock, a thing, de- spite his cunning, not so difficult to do. | owing to his nervousness
 An Enelishman named Turnbull. who had q ranch east of Merida, being ! bothered by a panther tiger which killed his stock, thought that he would | hunt him after the method often en- { plcyed in India with tigers and leop- ards. Taking with him two of his herders and a goat. he went at night | fall to a woodland which the creature was accustomed to visit. There he tie} the goat to a stake and took his | position behind a blind fifty wards | away to wait for the tiger to come | Tor the goat The ranchmen he sent a little back with instructions to await his summons
 surely enough, the tiger came. but after reconnoiterlng the ground un- seen, as was shown by his tracks next day, instead of tacklng the goat. he made circuit and bounced upon the back of the hunter lying on the ground behind his blind, A heavy overcoat that he wore, the season being winter when the nights are cold in the moun- tans, saved the hunter for the mo- ment from the tigers teeth and claws, and his shouts brought the two ranch men to the rescue. They attacked the tiger pluckily with their maChetes The beast was loath to give up his prey. He drove the ranchmen back twice re- turning to the Englishman each time and standing guard above him. with his forepaws on his body. At last one If the ranchmen threw a lasso over he tigers neck and jerked it tight The animal charged him at once, but he men got turn of the rope round | small tree, and, both pulling hard ogether, drew the tigers head close 10 the trunk. Then, as the tiger snapped a the rope with his teeth, one )f the ranchmen severed his spine with lis machete. The E.nglishman was badly shaken up by the unexpected ; outcome of his hunting scheme, but ] vas not much injured otherwise He { finished the beast, which now, of curse, was helpless, with a shot in the lead. and he always claimed the glory if killing him. But it was never heard hat he tried East Indian hunting ; methods again with Venezuelan pan- her-tigers. ti,,,nc. 1I1t tnr 1T iCp~ |