TAKING A TIGER'S PICTURE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1800, 9 October 1888, Page 4

TAKING A TIGER'S PICTURE.

A thrilling incident, which recently happened in India, is related by the native papers. It was no less a feat than the photographing of a tiger and a buffalo at the instant they were in deadly conflict. The whole affair had been deliberately prearranged. I he buffalo was carefully tethered to a stump in the middle of the field. The artist, who was, of course, iu peril ut his life, coolly focussed the horned beast. Then the tiger was let loose, and springing upon the buffalo, struck the huge creature to the earth will) a single blow of of his paw. The camera, at this intense moment, took its instantaneous impression, and the result was a picture vividly representing the deadly scene, and its victim at the very moment of dying. " The one beat of the heart," says an account, " thut intervened between the awful blow of the tiger's paw and the victim's positive surrender of existence, sufficed for the photographer to catch and fix with uuernng fidelity the attitude of the slayer and the slain." The striking achievement hae its scientific use. It settles, by indisputable testimony of the sun's rajs, the much mooted question by what method the tiger destroys his prey. The artist was a man of rare courage, for iu order to achieve this triumph of his art he took the chance that the

untamable rover of the jungle would leap on him instead of the victim intended for his deadly onset. — Ontario Herald.