Identifier: thirteenyearsamo00sand (find matches)
Title: Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sanderson, G. P. (George P.)
Subjects: Hunting -- India Elephants
Publisher: London : W. H. Allen
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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which the rest enjoyed immensely ; but I sawhe was in such a fright—and reflected that, with the uncertainty of her class,the tigress might as likely be near as far away—that I sent half-a-dozen men(the joker amongst them) to see him safely into the cultivated country onthe other side. Shortly after this, work took me to Goondulpet, twenty-five miles fromMorlay, on the Neilgherry road, and I returned on the 14th January 1874.As I rode into camp about mid-day the trackers were waiting for me, andinformed me that they had heard the death-cry raised at a small villagecalled Bussavanpoor below the Eamasamoodrum lake, and some two milesfrom Morlay, that morning; and that on inquiry they found a woman hndbeen carried off by the man-eater out of the village during the night, butthat they had not followed the tracks, as I was not with them. Bussavan-poor was a small hamlet situated in the middle of open rice-fields, thenbare as the crop had been cut. There was no jungle to cover the man-
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HO co or LJ I-< LJZ UJ II- A DATING RAID. 301 eaters advance, and a tiger had never hitherto been heard of near thevillage. This attack was therefore the more unlocked for and terrifyingto the villagers. Immediately breakfast was over and an elephant ready I started andsoon reached Bussavaupoor. The attack had been most daring. At oneend of the single street of the village stood a shady tree, round the baseof which a raised terrace of stones and earth had been built as a publicseat; within ten yards of this tree the houses began. From the markswe saw that the tigress had crouched upon this raised terrace, from whichshe commanded a view of the street. The nearest house on one side wasoccupied by an old woman, the one opposite by her married daughter.The old woman, it appeared, sometimes slept in her own house, sometimesat her daughters. The night before she had been going to her daugh-ters, and as she crossed the street, only a few feet wide, the tigress withone silent bound seized

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