A Royal Tiger Hunt.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 36, 20 July 1870, Page 7

A Royal Tiger Hunt.

—o — Tiger hunting has formed rather an exciting feature of the Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to India, A letter in the Times from the camp on the Mohan, Nepaul, says “Jung Bahadoor and the Duke’s party, mounted on elephants, crossed the river, and the Rajah of Bbulorampore, who was encamped close by, accompanied the Duke. From our side of the river were mustered 130 elephants; in the Maharajah’s camp there were 275. At a short distance from the camp, the 400 elephants, carrying near 1200 men, were formed into line, extending more than a mile and a quarter.’ Jung Bahadoor, with the Prince, took a place in the centre. With a trumpeter behind him, mounted on a small elephant, he directed the movements of the line by the British trumpet calls. It was a stirring sight to see tire line advancing grandly across the plain, then part of it entering the jungle, the elephants crashing down the trees that opposed their progress, and reappearing and again completing the line on the further side. Then the whole body, crossing another plain covered with high grass, descended the banks of the Mohan into the stream, and, floundering through it, reached the plain beyond. The left of the line was here thrown forward on the open, the right front being covered by a thick forast with strong undergrowth, where, it was believed, a tiger was lying. The left halted by order, and Jung Bahadoor, riding to the front, accompanied by the Prince and Colonel Thomson (the Commissioner with the Prince’s camp) •wheeled up the right through the jungle till it joined the left, forming a complete circle. Then the whole mass of elephants gradually closed in towards the centre, and the circle had become very small, making some think they were going to draw a blank, when suddenly a tiger sprang up close to the Duke’s elephant. The first shot wounded him, and ho made a dash to escape, but found himself surrounded by a wall of elephants, stamping and snorting, with their trunks in the air. Ho made an attempt to charge the line, but was knocked over by another ball, and dispatched. After the kill, the line was re-formed, and marched for the rest of the day straight across the country, the party shooting os they wont, and killing some doei 1 , partridges, hares, and rabbits, but seeing no great amount of largo game." The following “ notice” was found posted on a fence in one of the London suburbs ; —“ Persons found trespassing will be shot and prosecuted.”