TAKING A TIGER'S PICTURE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 3 October 1888, Page 2

TAKING A TIGER'S PICTURE

A thrilling incident, which recently happened m India, is related by the native papers. Is was no less a feat than the photogMphfng of a tiger and a buffalo at the instant they were m deadly ooofl'ot. Tba whole afiair nai been deliberately prearranged. The bnffilo was oarcfully tithorod to a etnmp m the middle of a Bold The artist, who wac, of coarse, m peril of his life, oolly focusaedthe horned bbast:. Then tho tiger was let loo'e, aud spnoginK upon the boflalo, struok the

• ugtf o eature to the earth with a single blow of hie paw. Tbe camera, at this intense moment, took its Instantaneous impression, and the result was a picture vividly representing the deartly ecane, and its vie im at the very m aoen.t of dying. " The one baat of ' the heart," says an account, "that intervened between the awfnl blew of tbe tiger's paw and the vlotim'a positive surrender of existence, sufficed for tbe photographer to catch and fix with unerring fidelity the attltade of the slayer and the slain." The striking achievement has its solentlfia me* It settles, by indisputable testimony of tbe sun's rays, the much mooted question by what method the tiger destroys its prey. The artist was a man of rare courage, for m order to achieve this triumph of hs art he took the ahanoe that tbe untamable rover of the jungle wonld leap on him instead of the yio'im intended for his deadly onset,—" Ontario Herald." .