The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-14

! of several villagers, and on the tige1
| Selling him his companions turned anC
drove the tiger off him. He was insen
sibie, and had no idea, when he came
to his senses, what had happened to him
| DREAMED OF IT FOR DAYS.
An Indian sportsman who had killed
many wild beasts thus records his dreams
IN the days that followed one particularly
frIghtful experience. He says: II well
remember how, in nay friEhtful dreams
the panther constantly came at me again.
| and how fiercely l struggled to get my
hands and feet (Which / imagined ted
tree, and how ultimately l awoLxe, bathed
/ IN perspifation, having got lid of my
| horrible nightmare"
MI Hirst gives several instances OF
wounds inflicted by bears, and in every
instance the testimony of the wounded
man is that he was not conscious of pain.
one says: Il was not conscious of any
pain; though severely bitten Another
writes: In the moEMnt of desperate
st; uggie for life, the intense excitement
and anger did, as matter of fact, render
me 1nsenSible to the feeling of actual
pain as the bear gnawed my left hand,
Which was badly torn and perforated with
holes, most of the bones being borken.
| in another case there was no pain, and
the patient afterWard said that he felt
as II the bear had simply hold of his
trousers, In another case the mans
courage failed him when the bear sat up.
His face bones were smasede and his
face lacerated, but he did not feel any
pain while being MANNED.
The Rev j. G. Kerry, Baptist mis-
sionary in Bengal, tells an odd story
about an engineer on the Assam-Bengal
railway who went out after a tiger that
had done much damage. He found 1T, but
his gun missed fire, and before he could
fire again the tiger was upon MIN ana
began to crunch the mans right arm.
whereUDon although he felt no pain at
the time, he gave the tiger severe blow
in the face with his left. Strange to say,
the <iger was so disconnected that he
walked away.
E. C. S. Baker. F. z. s.. tells of a wo-
man who was attacked by man-eat1ng
tiger. but suffered no pain, although she
was bitten twice through the muscles or
the am; also of a man bitten through
the neck and shoulder, who died in three
days, but suffered no pain at all, either
at the time of the bite or afterward;
also of another man bitten through the
thigh, who suffered no pain at the time,
but endured agonies afteTward
A panther made three bites on the
upper arm of man, leaving several deep
holes. The man says: felt no terror
and no pain whatever, so far as the pan
Their was conce5ned but t; | was very cry, as us
into the pair of us where we lay.
OF an encounter with leopard Mr.
Baker, cf GunJong, says: Il was ex-
ceedingly conscious OF danger Wnen the
leopard was chewing my arm, and work
ed out in my mind at the moment what
my chances were, but there was no pain
from the bites, though recollect that
a sickening senSa ton shot through me
as the brute smashed the bone of the
arm; the pain was like the pang of
toothache, but it was instantaneous, and
the rest of the time there was no pain
at al"
r. V. Kirby, +. L. S., had an encounter
with an African leopaTdess He does not
appear to have suffered when graphing
with the beast until she caught him near
there "lntCnS4 n.
and then-blank.'
THIS MAN FELT INTENSE PAIN.
S. T. Hansard, of Ceylon, had a con-
fiict with a man-eatinB tigress which had
been the scourge of the neighborhoQd.
He and friend went to seek her, each
taking a different side of a certain ra-
vine. Mr.. Hansard says: Il suddenly felt
what seemed to me for the moment TO
be a mans hand on each of my Shout
ders, like a heavyweight playing leap
frog. CHANGING over my left shoulder,
saw, to my horror, the open mouth of a
huge tiger within an inch of my neck.
Then all was dark Whether tainted
or not l can't say. but believe that it is
a fact that in most cases the victim has
been struck senseless with the first flap
from the paw. The next thing 1 remem-
Der was slipping down the ravine with
my head downward, my face to the
ground, and the tgrEss on my back, bit
ing my neck. The agony | felt was
something fearful; my whole skull
seemed DIS IL 1t was D6lnS cruSne6 TO at
oms in the jaws of this great brute.
Twice the jaws seemed to meet, and I
thought it was all up. The next thing
! remember was q sudden relaxation,
feeling the brute off my back and seeing
her roll downward toward the stream.
Il most certainly felt the most awful
pain 1 have ever experienced when she
was biting my neck, but not afterward,
as far as can remember. The old mill
tary doctor who attended me mentioned
the case of DR.. Livingstone, and said
that he thought the pain felt was due to
the fact of the nerves all meeting in the
neck. l felt none of my other wounds
at the time, but they We're very painful
afterWard'