Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

Author:Gordon Casserly [Casserly, Gordon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, General, Nonfiction
ISBN: 4057664608987
Google: _s3CDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-27T05:00:00+00:00


THE TIGER'S LYING IN STATE. THE TIGER'S LYING IN STATE.

THE TIGER'S LAST HOME. THE TIGER'S LAST HOME.

The tiger was a fine young male in splendid condition, and measured nine and a half feet from nose to tip of tail. After photographing it, we brought the elephants in turn up to it as it lay on the ground and encouraged them to smell and strike it. This is done to show them that the animal is not a foe to be dreaded. We all had to help in lifting the limp body on to Khartoum's back; for a well-grown tiger weighs nearly three hundred and fifty pounds. It was fastened on to the pad with ropes; and we started back in triumphal procession to Alipur Duar, where the beast was flayed and the flesh scrambled for by the women of the neighbourhood, who gathered like vultures. The skin was pegged out on the grass to dry, before being sent to a taxidermist to be dressed and mounted to adorn my bungalow.



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