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THR DANGERS OF, TIGER SHOOTING.

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THR DANGERS OF, TIGER SHOOTING. We (Central India Times) regret to state that Lieutenant Keith, of the Royal Artillery at Kamptee, when out shooting tigers in the Wurdah district, on the 22nd of April, was mauled by one he had shot. About a fortnight previously this gentleman, with two brother officers, washuntingalargeboar, whichsuddenly charging Lieutenant Keith, bowled him and his horse over. He had his right arm and side paralysed by the fall, was insensible for about thirty hours, and totally disabled for sport for ten days. On the 22nd, the party was on a beat in high jungle the two other gen- tlemen had got up into their trees, but Lieutenant Keith had not strength to climb the one allotted to him. He consequently stood in the foot of it in high grass. A large tiger bounded by, which Lieutenant Keith mortally wounded. It passed him about twenty yards off, but having spied, turned and attacked him. Keith had not the power, so weak was he from the effects of the recent accident, to cock his second rifle. The beast knocked him down by a blow on the side, and after seizing him three times with his mouth in the thigh and leg, died on the top of him. Keith was, however, able to crawl away and await the arrival of his brother sportsmen, who immediately sent him in with all despatch to Nagpore; but he gradually sank from sheer exhaustion, and expired in the night.