Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1913 — DIED WITH HIS ATTACKER [ARTICLE]

DIED WITH HIS ATTACKER

Jaguar, at Least, Had the Satisfaction of- Killing Hia Foe Before He Succumbed. After we struck the main riyer we passed many long sandbars and on one of these Felipe’s ever roving eyes discovered a tiger asleep, says a writer in the Outlook. The jaguar lay stretched out on his belly, hla nose on his paws, the water almost laving the cruel talons of hie front feet. We were about fifty yards away when we first sighted him and I raised the rifle to fire. The canoe rocked a trifle and I lowered the repeater, raisfng it again almost immediately, but Felipe seized my hand, saying: "Don’t shoot, senor, the tiger is dead,” The remarkable intuition of Felipe proved correct, as it had on many a trip into the jungle, but when I asked him how he knew, he merely replied that the tiger looked like he was dead. We landed a yard from the jaguar and saw, crushed in the powerful teeth, the body of a 6nake, something like the water moccasin of the lower Mississip- I pi river. The fangs of the snake were j imbedded in the tiger’s jaw and the reptile’s body was cut completely in i twain. It was as dead as the creature J it had killed, though neither had been dead more than twenty-four hours. According to Felipe, the tiger had come down to the stream to drink and as th» great round head lowered to the water the snake had sent home the deadly poison. According to Felipe, also, a jaguar never runs when he can fight, and tne result lay before us.