The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-27
Here let me say that the three men


Here let me say that the three men
with me were all experienced hunters.
Donaldson, the ScOtchman, was one OF
the best shots ever saw, not even bar
ring AL Huston or Ed Lane of Wyo
ming. He had hunted tigers before.
He was a hard man to get along with,
but a good man nevertheless. Grant
and Akers, the two Englshmen. were
also good shots and cool headed men
well, it was finally decided that we
should descend on the brush in line
with Grant and Akers in the middle
and Donaldson on one end and myself
on the other. We walked along the
ridge above the ravine until we came
opposite the part of the brush in which
the tigers were supposed to have their
lair. Then we formed our line and pre-
pared to descend upon the brush. The
poor devils began to beat their pans
and shout with quiyering voices The
noise had just started when | heard
DonaldsOn's voice above it all shout
ing, Hold on.
Il glanced in his direction. and there
he was kaeeling and aiming with bis
Marlin at something across the ravine.
| heard the crack of his rife, and, look
ing in the direction in which he shot
and about 200 yards distant across the
rarine on the hillside. | saw an enor-
nous tiger leap into the air and fall
back stone dead.
when the coolies saw what Donald
son had done, they felt better. We all
started across the ravine through the
brush in some disorder and in consider
able haste, utterly oblivious of the fact
that there were other tigers there.
Those poor coolies had a hard time
travelling in the brush shackled togeth-
err two by two. In fact, they were left
in the rear. Donaldson. Akers, Grant,
myself and two or three of the guards
had Just reached the dead tiger when
we heard most unearthly screaming
and screeching among the coolies in
the brush. The guards fred into the
brush with their old blunderbusses and
then took to fight. We white men has
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matter.
I'VE had not gone far into the brush
before | almost stumbled over dead
cody. His companion, chained to him,
was lying near by, with his arm nearly
torn off While Akers and | were look
ing at this sight we heard Grant cry;
Look out. Tiger We both cooked
bur guns and looked about us.
Suddenly there was a fash of vel
low, and a large tiger was in the air
and on its way toward Akers. Fortu-
nately he had seen it in time to raise
his rifle, which was an express with eX-
plosive bullet, and place it squarely on
the breast of the tiger, just as the ami
NAL reached him, and fire. OF course
the impact knocked Akers silly, but it
hurt the tiger worse.
"The tiger fell on top of Akers, but
it seemed to be paralyzed. 1t just
crouched there without moving. | was
only ten feet distant and l took care
full aim at the animals temple and
fired The bullet plOwed its brain out
and it rolled over dead. We examined
the animal and found that the bullet
from Akers gun had passed through
its lungs and had struck its backbone
somewhat back of it's shoulders and
had followed the backbone down as
far as the loins before exploding. 1t
was the stroke on the backbone that
paralyzed the animal and had thereby
saved Akers' life Akers was pretty
badly bruised up, but not seriously in
jured Three coolies were killed and
several others injured.
"We found that the tiger Donaldson
, had shot had been struck squarely in
the heart Both animals bore numerous
scars which they had received in other
hunts. Those two animals had killed
hundreds Of Cinnamon"