TWO TIGER STOKIES. An Englishman Horribly Mangled A Native Killed.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 210, 9 July 1887, Page 3

TWO TIGER STOKIES. An Englishman Horribly Mangled A Native Killed.

The " Englishman " gives the following account of the melancholy fate of H. A. Hughes, Assistant Collector, Khandesh, while out tiger-shooting : The detailed accounts received regarding Mr Hughes's death state that he and the Forest Inspector went out on Sunday after a tiger six miles beyond Chondaand 40 miles fxom Rhosawul. The Forest Inspector wounded the tiger, which then got away. On the following day they picked up the tracks, and the tiger being known to be lying at a particular spot, Mr Hughes posted himself in a tree while some of his Bheel guards collected a herd of buffaloes and drove them down to the spot. The beast was found, and at last lay in sight, letting the buffaloes come around it Believing the tiger to be quite incapable of doing mischief, Mr Hughes got down from the tree and incautiously walked up to it, when it charged him. Mr Hughes fired and rni&sed, and so did the Forest Inspector. The tiger then seized Mr Hughes by the right leg and threw him down on his face and fearfully mauled him. Meanwhile the Forest Inspector or the Bheel Naik, ov both of them together, fired and killed the brute on Mr Hughes's body. Mr Hughes had in all twenty-three terrible wounds, all bites x most of them very deep. He died from exhaustion yesterday morning, and it is surmised he would have died from bloodpoisoning even if he had survived the first shock. The Amoy correspondent of the Hongkong " Daily Press" tells the following tiger story : This time the scene of disaster is a few miles farther away from Poh Sai, at the foot of a mountain called " Lam Thai Boo," in the Kang Bay district. A few days ago four of the villagers descrying a tiger carrying away a goat, from the neigh- ' bouring field, followed in his pursuit with ! arms. The tiger took refuge in a cave at the foot of the mountain, and the villagers" thinking that there was no other means of egress but the one through which ho had entered, covered it up with the brambles, thorns and other wild herbage at hand. They then stationed one of their number on a rock overhanging the cave, and returned to the village to procure additional assistance. In the meantime the brute found some other loophole of escape from •his confinement, and, suddenly confronting the man on the rock, tore him to pieces and was nearly devouring him when his companions appeared on the scene. At the fourteenth shot the ferocious monster was brought down and the half -devoured corpse of the ill-starred villager rescued from his claws. This district of Kang Bay is infested with tigers, and it affords a good field for the socalled hunters who wish for a better object for their skill than the innocent water ducks and birds of the like species. mmmmmmm^^ mmmm^ mmmmmmmmmmmm

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