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Bisgaum Charges the Dying Tiger
Identifier: wildbeaststheirw00bake (find matches)Title: Wild beasts and their ways : reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and AmericaYear: 1890 (1890s)Authors:  Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893Subjects:  Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893 Animal behavior HuntingPublisher:  London  New York : MacmillanContributing Library:  Harold B. Lee LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Brigham Young UniversityView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:t the animal was quite dead. I thereforeinstructed Bisgaums mahout to make a detour to the right untilhe could descend with his elephant into the flat bottom of thewatercourse, he was then to advance cautiously until near enoughto see whether the tiger breathed. At the same time I rodeDemoiselle carefully as near as we could safely descend among therocks to a distance of about 40 yards; it was so steep that theelephant was impossible to turn. From this point of vantage Isoon perceived Bisgaums bulky form advancing up the dry torrent-bed. The rocks were a perfectly flat red sandstone, which inmany places resembled artificial pavement; this was throughoutthe district a peculiar geological feature, the surface of the stonebeing covered with ripple-marks, and upon this easy path Bisgaumnow approached the body of the tiger, which lay apparently deadexactly in his front. Suddenly the elephant halted when about 15 yards from theobject, which had never moved. I have seen wild savages frenziedText Appearing After Image:BISGAUM CHARGES TJIE DYING TIGER. P. 85. iv THE ELEPHANT 85 by the exciting war-dance, but I never witnessed such an instanceof hysterical fury as that exhibited by Bisgaum. It is impossibleto describe the elephantine antics of this frantic animal; he kickedright and left with his hind legs alternately, with the rapidity of ahorse; trumpeting and screaming, he threw his trunk in the air,twisting it about, and shaking his immense head, until, havinglashed himself into a sufficient rage, he made a desperate chargeat the supposed defunct enemy, with the intention of treating thebody in a similar manner to that a few days previous. But thetiger was not quite dead ; and although he could not move to getaway, he seized with teeth and claws the hind leg of the maddenedelephant, who had clumsily overrun him in the high excitement,instead of kicking the body with a fore foot as he advanced. The scene was now most interesting. We were close specta-tors looking down upon the exhibition as thoughNote About Images
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