Identifier: aroundworldwith02youn (find matches)
Title: Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General U.S. Grant, ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879. To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Young, John Russell, 1841-1899
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York : The American News Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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there, allowing the beast to crunch it. He thusconfined the wound to the single member, and saved his life atthe expense of his arm. Even now, with his armless sleeve, heis one of the most daring sportsmen in India. It was want of time—at least it is supposed it was want oftime, and not the rueful tiger stories—that prevented us from A MAX-EATER. 12 accepting the invitation of his Highness and having one day inthe jungle of Jeypore. Hunters are not less careful of theirlives than other men, and the care taken to prevent accidents—the use of arms of precision, skill in their use, and the fact thatall wild animals, the tiger especially, are cowards, afraid ofnoise, fire, light, or any unusual sight—make the accidents ofthe chase less on the average than the casualties in fox hunting-in the English shires. The only dangerous tiger is what iscalled the man-eater. The man-eater is generally an oldbeast, with bad teeth and gums, lacking in enterprise and en- ■ ■■■■:?&*
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durance. He has outlived his usefulness in the jungle. Ani-mals that ordinarily would be his prey avoid him without diffi-culty. Driven to despair because he cannot roam the bushesand seize what he fancies, he falls upon some poor belatedHindoo wood-cutter, or child at play, or woman carrying herpitcher to the well, and then he learns that, of all the animalsgiven to him by a considerate Providence for food, man is themost toothsome, the most helpless, and the most cowardly.The buffalo, the wild pig, even the antelope, will not surrenderwithout resistance. A wild pig has been known to kill a tiger I2g INDIA. in a fight. A buffalo will charge a tiger and battle with him,and sometimes successfully, before he surrenders. An antelopewill inflict a serious wound if he can give a good thrust with hishorns. Consequently, when a tiger gets old, when his musclesare worn and his teeth are bad, he would have to suffer inthese controversies ; but having learned how easy a prey isman, he devotes h

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