The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-05
THE TIGER HUNT
 OF PANABARAS End of a Long Hunt After a Man Eater-Baits to
 Get the Game. BEATING UP JUNGLE How the ''Demon" Was Measured Four
 Feet Ten Inches.
BEATING UP JUNGLE

from any line of rail and only visited periodically by any white men. The country round about it is all jungle, save for patches of cultivation around the small villages, and dotted here and there are hills with fantastic shaped rocks piled upon them. I had obtained two months leaves not many hot weathers ago. writes a correspondent of the London Field, and after some long marches and indifferent sport happened to meet the deputy commits sioner on his annual trek.
 He informed me that in the country around Panabaras many complaints had reached him of some tigers which had done a lot of damage there, both to men and cattle. During the previous rains many men had been carried off while cutting wood in the jungle. He had had one beat for q tiger there, but 1t had been blank Three days after ward I found myself at this small vil- lage near a dried up riverbed, and there pitched my camp.
 Besides my servants and two Sikhs from my regiment I had with me two very experienced shikaris-one a pen sioner from the Indian cavalry, who had been in at the death of scores of tigers in the good old days when bags of twelve or more were common in one hot weather shoot. My other shikari was Bhil called Kamagee, a typical jungle man, who lived all his life in the jungle and only came with the "sahib log on shikar trips; he was beautiful ly built, as hard as nails and won- derfully fine tracker after big game; in fact he was one of the finest shikaris I have ever met The next day we ob- tained all the available information from the villagers
 The tiger lived very often on hill covered with rocks about one mile and a half from the village The villagers | killed two men there and the place was haunted. He had lived off and on in these parts for years and had killed many head of cattle, but very rarely returned to his kill. He was very often seen In company with another tiger or probably tigress; but one had been shot the year before, and in somewhat pe- cullar fashion. All natives in common In India have wonderful knack of l exagerating things and seem to possess l in marked degree "the liars love of detail" which Is apt to lead astray the uninitiateti, but this story was cofrob- orated afterward by the man who took part in 1t.
 During the rains the year before the | local policeman had some work in this part of the jungle and found out that the road passing by the hill which have mentioned before was not being used, and on inquiry was told that two tigers, as soon as they heard carts coming along the road, would hide by the roadside, and while one stopped the carts in front the other would spring on the nearest bullock and drag it away. The policeman persuaded them to send row of carts to be driven along the road again and followed be- hind the last cart with his orderly and rife. They had no sooner got near the | hill than the carts were stopped, the cartmen fled and the policeman, on run l ming to the front, saw a large tiger about to spring on the nearest bullock He bowled 1t over and the carts con- tinued their journey. So one of the tig- CTS had been killed and the other re- mained for me to try conclusion with.
 The next day we visited the hill
 where he was supposed to live and ex- plored the country around for water
 This was very scarce, only very small
 holes remaining in the nullahs. The hil
 was covered with big rocks and these
 formed in places commodious caves, ir
 which were positive signs that the tigel
 was accustomed to lie up in some O
 them; in some were bones of all sizes
 and in one a skeleton, whether of, z
 monkey or man 1t is hard to say. Fam
 flies of bears must have visited tht
 place at times, as their marks wert
 evident everywhere; but when oul
 friend was in residence they were prob ably conspicuous by their absence. Tha
 evening we tied up three helas (youns
 buffalo) around the hill and awaited : developments. The next morning, no
 too early, We were on our way to tn
 hill. On arriving at a quarter of @ mil
 from the first hela we halted Kamage
 stripped himself of most of his clothe
 and crept forward He was soon up
 tree like a monkey and peering about
 No kill. The hela was loosened and talk
 en off to have drink and on we wen
 to the next. No. was left untouched.
 On approaching the third Kamage
 made 8 sign and we knew there haC
 been a kill, This was near the road
 so we knew the tiger was not likel
 to be near, The animal was entirel
 covered up with grass and leaves, an
 only little of it eaten Some tiger
 are in the habit of doing this so as t
 keep the vultures off, and I lnvariabl
 find that when this has been done, an
 they are not disturbed, they return t
 the kill the next night, We found tn tigers tracks leading right away fror the hill and determined to beat a sma nullah about a mile off, where ther
 was some water After sitting in a Ire | more than an hour boiled by the su
 and tormented by eye flies, the bea was blank; no signs of the tiger la under tree till 5 o'clock and sent fo some food from my camp and deter i mined to sit up and watch the whol , night
 By o'clock my retainers had var i ished, the sun was getting low and $ was sitting on eharpoi in my tre l with cushion behind me, a chagul ( l ! water hanging over a bough, a fe l biscuits in my pockets and my rifle h l, my side. The atmosphere was some 1 what rednlnnt of hela and the rnnsni1