New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17

four miles of forest and that I wouId march To =
small village a short distance out on the plain
from the edge of the jungle at daylight on the fol-
lowing morning, and 1 should expect news in by
3 o'clock If there had been "a kill"
This did. but one after the other the men
arrived with their buffaloes very much alive and
no news Of the tigresses- So. making a present to
them of the animals decided TO march for cfvfIf-
cation the next day. and they all went off to the
village TO sell. make the best bargain they couI5
with their beasts My rnahout. however and cook
remained behind, and shortly after noticed an old
man emerge from the jungle and come hurrving
toward my camp, which was some half mile from
the village.
His story was soon told. Early that morning he
Lad started off in charge Of herd of COWS 10 graza
them for the day and. the sun becoming hot they
had trespassed into this first class reserve forest
wren almost Immediately he saw 4 tiger pull down
a white COW, and he and the herd stampeded
1t did not take the mahout and myself very long
70 get the howdah on my elephant. and together
with the old man to act guide We were OF. In
quarter of an hour or less we found the COW right
enough. but the tiger had eaten any portion Of
her For some two hours in the midday heat OF an
Indian day at the end of May did We search every
patch of grass and scrub and nullah tdrv water
course) in the neighborhood, but sign of life did
see
then returned 70 the COW, and tying nv ham,
mock up in 4 tree that commanded good view, of
her. 1 bade my mahOut return TO camp and como
back for when IL TOO dark for me- 70 ga,
TO shoot. unless he heard shot earlier whom ba
was to come ar once. II about n m and
sweltering hot when magnificent stag cbAatab
came stalking by. and I with difficulty rAfrsf-a5
from shooting. bur rewarded some AT-ea,
minutes later saw a tigress coming along a. .
trot, some Two hundred yards OF and paUeire TO-
moment in every thick patch OF undergrovrtb Che
passed through Then I saw second animal fo1
lowing the first one.
They entered a thick patch of br,isF,v-oos tz.
beyond the COW. and for moment we're ri57.,
from view. when almost simultaneously tha[ -
thrust head and shoulders out o. the bushes ,,,r5
to look at the COW. and trotted forward ir1rs7f,a
~ emptied both barrels. giving each of theTn q
shot. H d
Tigress No I rushed about with apparently ut,la
or no use in her headquarters and ended in trr,-
bling over and over in bush. growing and smart
ing and apparently in diabolical rage when All
OF sudden she lay still Tigress No > fen over
where she was shot, quite dead Both were bit in
the same spot. close behind the shoulder Had I
been on foot. the first would have killed me
but the other was knocked down dead at once II
teaches one great deal / suppose before the
hrst tigress ceased rushing about she covered
ttiy one hundred yards of ground, for she drst
rushed away some thirty yards and then came
charging right back. though Eortaliy wounded. /
was using a O5II double ride and six drains of
powder, with the copper tube express bullets. SO
u Is difficult TO account for such vitality.-tThe
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