Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-29
B. r. S. Prichard of India Re-
Iates Horrific Tales of
Lions, Tigers, ct al.

| dreams, in the dead OF n:Cht, with
your bare arm ranned about foot
| down a mountain liens throat; fancy
sharp, gnawing teeth piercing your
skin; suppose. this jungle giant start
ed back via the rear gate to his for
est haunts still retaining in his mouth
your extended arm With YOU dragging
at the end CT it. ......- -
Wait a moment. this is no dream.
Picture women faint ne in terror !;
servants stifleIIRg to helpless fright,
and you still humping towards the
mighty monarch's timber home, with
apparently no escape from Z living
death. Eaten alive" the papers
would say. . ~ n
II you can conceive all this, and still
believe it; if you can apprehend with
out ieriding, then you may have some
idea CT the hair raising tales of adj
venture related, under questioning, by
B. R. S. Prilchard, tea grower, late
OF Khari Katia, Assam. India, and at
present a tourist visitor here with
Mrs. Prichard in coy cottage at
the Seaside hotel
The Fnglishnan doesn't tell the
tale voluntarily; his friends encourage
him. But once under steam, full
speed ahead, he. unfolds a store OF
Bengal heart-thTillers that would make
ghost yarns Of the haunted-holise va
riety look sick. " ~.
Berry Hangs On -.
But getting back to the first one:
Did the monster devoHrs his victim or
was the man torn limb from limb and
left to lie on the rocks as the ferocious
beast. escaped to impenetrable fast,
nesses, emitting his bellows the
while? Not so. His captive in arms,
or arm, as ii were, was one Berry,
and Berry was an Irishman, of in
domitable nerve He hung on" to
the end. .."..
1t was this way: The Assam man
sions are hot in summer. But there's
no ice or electric fans. To replace
the latter large breeze-stirrers are
hung from ceilings and agitated to
and fro by a rope, running over
pulley and through a hole in the wall
to a coolie half doing on stool out
side, automatically jerking the rope.
One day said cuolie dozed too ex-
tensiyely. Suddenly. the lulfing air.
connection ceased and the inmates
rushed out to learn the cause. They
didn't. The coolie was gone, that was
ALL And he never came back Mys-
terry there: was with no solution.
F The next day. the same incident oc--
CURED. The. following night a guard
was stationed near the fan-man to
make q report on such curious act
ions. Had they remained awake, as
they should, the "arm-in-the.rnouth
story probably never would have been
told. But the night was warm, and
they slumbered
Suddenly they were brought horri.
fled to their feet by screams OF pain,
with "cuss" words. Their
eyes bulged out at an immense lion,
on his way to the jungle, dragging
Berry in his wake. The tanner had
this time.
One fell over in dead faint at
the sight, another dropped PROSTATE;
the third survived and saved the day.
He grasped a rifle of large bore,
placed it at the big beasts head, and
blew his brains out.
Lives to Tell Tale
Punctured few times but other
wise solid the arm was regained by
the still conscious 1rishman, who lived
until few years ago to spin the
yarn. He showed the teeth marks as
Exhibit A. for conclusive evidence.
Here's another:
Papa and mama and the kids are
logging home at dusk over an Assam
road in a pony cart A monstrous
leopard sneaks out from hiding: saps
he horse terrific, stunning Jolt on
he ten1lle and makes off with his
.atch while pater, mater, ct al, de-
tart aurriedly and unceremoniously
,ver the rea seat. Later they re.
,oyer the cart and harness,
{ And again:
Ii was Christmas day. A young
was riding to a yule-tide
east. or away from It, 1t matters not
which, on horseback, when leopard
him. The spirit of giving
entered the riders heart, suddenly
md surely. He donated the horse
RELY, nor did ne wait for thanks.
rhe curious part of this story is That
he same thing happened the follow.
ny year. the same day at practically
he identical spot 1t is said the Eng.
ishman has since joined the Society
or the Prevention of Useless Giving.
Iere's One More
Just one more:
Pr;tchard tells of dozen finei
eifers slaughtered but untouched, one
christmas day. He believes they were
Tiled in sport by a female tigress
mo took along her young to teach