Show A tiger hunt I 1 held beld I 1 am about to relate incidents in tiger shooting which doubtless will interest many of your readers especially ally retired oli indian sportsmen my story illustrates further the admirable pluck IDI and hardihood oft native y a st pluck tapi cal of ahe race abi which ch so often pass es unnoticed and anti as its a matter of course among those whose good fort fortune uneit it is to face big game in our ludian indian junalea in association with these really excellent fellows mr air cuthbert eraser fraser of the berar police a few weeke ago waa was besting beating up a male tiger on one of effluents of the tati river which in this part of ita its course divides berar from the central provinces the tiger was locally cally well known and much dreaded with his male mate he is believed to have aea destroyed troyed during his career over head of cattle he ile was very bold very daring and when Pres pressed bed as on oil this occasion apt to turn sulky and show fight on the day I 1 am speaking a knoof of ile he was followed and ma marked r pk ed down wn in in some thick reedy jungle in the bed bd of a stream much cut up with water wat er channels more or leas less deep some so overgrown with grass as hardly to be distinguishable aule from firm ground mr air fraer frater took up hia his position ahead at a spot where 1 in ordinary course a tiger aou would d break while thu beaters under the of the well known and stout h kareem hemmed in in the ground from the rear and b by ghaoui rattle and anti beat of drum in indian beater fashion to move the tiger annn ahe beattris be eteri was a M man an who bit had brought with him his din ner arapi 0 I up iv uh i h a brass plate with a ciolli on afis tia back the brass bram plate was a foot iu ji and one sixteenth afan of an inch thick it is most unusual for an unwounded tiger to face the fiendish din that beaters make and knowing that it is the tigers habit to try and escape ca beaters as a rule rile move for wn ward with bonfi confidence fence until a shoo sho ahead warns them to bo be cautious on this occasion they trusted ted that in matters tatters would go aa as usual an I 1 they were gaily coming on when of a sudden a few paces in front of our friend with the brass brags plate up got the tiger and charged him with a roar the roan man turne turned 0 to fly ond nd in the next instant was seen by y bis big startled comrades to be struck down by a blow on the back from the tigers paw man and anti tiger digap feared in the grisa griss gr isa the man as i it was thought certainly killed all except kareem instantly cleared out a and nd gathered nn on the banks of the stream cowed and made nervous by the accident they supposed thessell them themselves sell vea to have witnessed sed when unexpectedly llie the fancied dead M roan a n was seen to appear in the bed of the scream running and aud making his way to one of the groups it turned out that he had been struck down on the very edge of one of the grass concealed water channels at this place of some depth and as be he fell to the bottom out ol 01 sight the tiger landed on the other bank of the channel and though eo so close each got out of sight eight of the other As soon as the man found he be was unhurt it was the work of a moment to pick himself up and hu gitig the protection ot the channel bed to make for the more open ground in the center of the ma main in i stream his escape was further explained by the fact that the tigers blow had been dealt on the brass plate and so was broken in ita its force though it was sufficiently severe to bend back at an angle a portion of the plate while three of of the tigers claws completely penetrated and made jagged holes in the plate had the plate not intervened ter these holes would have been deep wounds in the mans back by which the tiger would Ejob probably ably have been able to keep his is hold bold till he be had bitten and killed the man whose escape was really marvelous to return to the tiger after he had bad parted from the beater K KB a who stood his ground close by I 1 saw the tiger after a moments as toni shed and disappointed pause turn turnout out and slowly go growling to the shelter of a large bush it would have been madness of course to again try to dislodge him with the beat beater ert fc BO so after a short consultation kareem with one other man mao fired the jungle to windward designing to drive the tiger out before the fire mr fraser agai ring the way ahead A broad line of grass was fired and aa as the fire crackled and tore toie down before the wind in a sheet of flame kareem alone followed close in ita its wake with a double express in his hand As the fire was about to sweep over and around the bush into which he had seen the tiger retreat be called to mr air fraser to look out his ilia shout was instantly answered fur for over and through the flame came the tiger in one great greet bound roaring at him it wall bloodcurdling blood curdling moment and for kareem seemed certain death but kareem never flinched he ile was seen to drop on one knee to raise his rifle and in quick succession came the reports of both barrels then suddenly evly he lie swayed lis body to one side to escape be jug knocked oyer over his nerve and excellent xcell ent aim had saved him for as the tiger landgdon lan landed dedon on the ground literally brushing kareem as he he fell fill stone dead lead both awed ull eav had bad entered b litween tween the tye eyes and smashed up the brainpan TU TL tiger waa was ft a largo large and unusually heavy o ore oe e I 1 should mention in additional honor to 10 kareem that being next to the beater who was charged with at t the time only a heavy stick in his hand band as the tiger rushed past him birn and rose at the man he laid on to the tigers back a couple of heavy leavy thwacks th tb complimentarily un 1 0 at fit the same time t ane eti tigers iger a fema female I 1 e i elation relation sa s pe peculiarly culi arly indian form of abusive satisfaction and the marvel is that the tiger did not there and then turn and rend kareem but he did not and the probability is that Ra kareema reems blows helped to bis his confusion and the tho beaters escape |