Trapping a Tigress.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1976, 7 March 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Trapping a Tigress.

SnK was captured about nine months ago, in obedience to an order sent to India by Mr. Rpiche for one of her kind. A tiger traok was found in the jungle leading to the reedy banks of a river. A pit about twenty feet deep was dug \n the path and covered over with branches of trees and brushwood. The natives then oonoealed themselves, and at night the tigress, going down to the water, crashed through the covering, and lay, half ■tunned and wholly helpless, at tht bottom ol

the pit. She was allowed to lie there for a week. The mouth of the pit wag again closed, and for seven days she lived in darkness, without food or water. Suo'i treatment very often kills a tiger, but it is the only known mode of reducing thorn frora the snrs^e frenzy succeeding th'?ir capture to anjthirig like submisiion. When at last the cove rinpr<* wre asam removed the then unnamM Fanny w*<» found to be anything but tuo iund Hne vtai, however, weak, and her furious bound** to reach the mouth of »he pit were short at fl:^, and grew shorter with every effort. Then tb» natires be^an to angle for her. It was bard and dangerous fishing, but Mowly nooae after noose was dropped around her body, her fore legs were drawn tightly to her sides, and ah« was pulled up at last, firmly bound and power, less. Other cords were thrown around her, and with her feet in the air, and her back down, she was lashed to bamboo poles, und earned by a score of men to a pla«Q of embarkation. She had very lUila life left in her wtien she was put on board ship and diipatched to Germany. When she landed in Hurope, however, she had recovered, and Mr. Iteiche, who ii liviug in Germany, was deh^ ited with her appearance. He gave her the name of Fanny, and secured her p*B*a^e to America. She ia worth perhaps 8 500 Hula.— New York Sier.