WONDERFUL COOLNESS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1628, 1 September 1887, Page 4

WONDERFUL COOLNESS.

An incident in the career of Sir Edward Bradford, the newly-appointed Political Secretary at the India Office, deserves to be recorded as showing the character of the man—one of the ablest but most modest of soldiers who ever drew a sword. As a young officer, doing duty with a Madras cavalry regiment, Sir Edward was a keen sportsman. One day when tiger shooting he "missed his mark," and soon found himself in a tiger's clutches. It was an anxious moment, few of his friends being at hand. As a sportsman of experience, Sir Edward knew well that his best course was to sham death. The tiger surveyed Ms prey, looked around, and thiuking all was safe, set steadily to work to make his meal. Taking the young officer's hand in his mouth, it was steadily disposed of, and the arm eaten to the elbow before Sir Edward's companions came up and released him. The cool resolution of the man in feigning death bad. been the means of saving what has since proved to be a most valuable life, for, as Sir-jEdw&rrl says when telling the story, had he moved, or uttered a groan, the tiger would have put an end to his existence before going on with his repast. Of course the shattered arm had to be removed from the shoulder. It may be imagined what the suffering was which the victim endured whilst lying, quite conscious, in the power of the voracious " maneater."