Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — LOTS OF WILD GAME [ARTICLE]

LOTS OF WILD GAME

Southwest Coast of Mindoro Is Paradise for Hunters. Tamarao, Fierce Animal Resembling American Buffalo. Found Only Here —Plenty of Carabao, •oar and Doer. Manila, P. I—“A paradise tor hunters,” is the way Judge Liddell describee the country in the vicinity of his home and plantation on the southeast coast of Mindoro. One game Mindbro excels in Is, the tamarao rarest of animals, and one which is found only In Mindoro. This fierce animal, much like an American buffalo, Is held in universal dread by every native on the island, who looks on him as a far more formidable creature than the maddest of wild carabaos. The tamarao is seldom seen tn clearings because he sticks to his native wilds. When be does come near a clearing the natives in that vicinity make for the nearest shelter. For the tamarao does not wait to attack. He takes the initiative himself, charging every one and everything in sight Hrs. Liddell, wife of Judge Liddell, is, perbaps. the only white woman who has ever seen a tamarao. A few weeks ago one came within fifteen feet of the window of the Liddell kitchen, where she was instructing the cook, and peered in. The natives in the neighborhood took to their heels and then the tamarao quietly walked off. But if the tamarao is the piece de resistance among the game of Undoro it is not the only game to be found on the Island. There are myriads of deer, wild chickens and game birds of all sorts. There are also plenty of wild boars on the island, some of them of extraordinary size and none of taem noted for tbetr docility. Judge Liddell has one tusk fully eighteen inches long. This came from a monster boar, which charged the hunters repeatedly before he was shot down. Wild carabao hunting is another pastime of the Mindoro planters and' one that is not destined to soothe the nerves of weak-hearted men. These Mg animals are at all times dangerous, and when once wounded or angered

will charge their hunters with all the ferocity of an '.frican buffalo. James Liddell, a son of the judge, bad an experience with one of them recently that will not be forgotten in a hurry. He was hunting and shot the big fellow, knocking hlrt off bls feet As the carabao lay still he approached him and when not a foot away the carabao leaped to his feet and charged. There was no time for a shot, so young Liddell did the only thing open to him—grappled with the infuriated beast Three times the animal gored him and finally the boy made, his escape. What the Filipinos tn his party regarded as them fraculous feature of the accident was the fact that the carabao had permitted him to escape.