Year: 1874

| Stewart had left the Licutenaut


Governors camp at Mirxapur on the


night Of the 25th Of November for !


days shooting, and intending TO ~


turn on the night Of the 26th. He


had been especially cautioned not "a


venture into the jungles, With the
en- ,nce Of meeting tiger when On


foot; but an eager temperament and
intense love Of sport overcame can
tion. He fell in with three brother
sportsmen living in ruined fort in
the jungle. They went out together,
found and attacked the too probable
enemy, and tigress was wounded
in the leg. A wounded tiger may
become the scourge Of I district; Il
was natural that English sportsmen
should make every attempt to kill
the beast rather than leave her slight
Iy disabled close to several large na-
tive villages.


They tracked her by the blood,
still wet beneath their feet, up to the
face Of a steep, stony hill, to a mass
of rocks where was 4 cave, the mouth
of which was visible above them.
The place was very dangerous. They
knew that the object Of pursuit was
very close at hand, and most proba-
bly, in the cave. A council was held,
and it was proposed TO defer proceed
ings till the following morning, in
order to get buffaloes to the place,
and, by driving them among the
rocks, make the tigress show herself.
Stewart opposed the delay. He had
left the camp on the understanding
that he was to return that night, and,
in his eagerness to lose no time, went
straight up to the mouth of the cave
and looked in. Providentially, moth
ing was there. He then tracked the
blood little beyond the spot, but as
darkness drew on, he yielded to the
general wish, aud agreed to await
the morning for further operations.


Having to pass the place on his re-
turn to camp, he reckoned that an
hour up the Hill added to the nights
absence would not cause any serious
detention. The next morning there
was delay in procuring buffaloes, and
the party had to go to work without
them. The blood of the wounded
animal being, moreover, dry, it was
difficult t. learn her precise locality.
Division of opinion as to her move
men,s ensued, the trail became lost,
and there was a partial separation Of
the guns. Stewart appears to have
been hidden from his companions by
intervening bushes, when, crouching
in comparatively open part OF the
Jungle, the tigress saw him approach
aud Unexpectedly dashed on him.
Struck down to the ground, he re-
manned motionless. From his own
account he had no inclination to call
out; and well that it was so.


A strange necessity is that Of sup
pressing all signs Of the life il is
mans instinct AS well as duty to OBJ
serve. His enemy passed him, but
soon returned to seize him by the
left calf, changing to the thigh in an
attempt to carry him off. Thinking
her victim dead, she dropped him
from her mouth, then struck him with
ner closed paw and left him, not,
however, till she had inflicted no less
than thirteen indelible wounds. On
being found by his companions, he
helped them for the moment in bind
ing up his own wounds, hut soon
sank into kind Of delirium. He
was put upon litter, taken into
Chunar, and by care and skill enabled
in few weeks to resume his wonted
occupation.--7e Telegraph and 7rdcel.