Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1899 — TWO AT A TIME. [ARTICLE]

TWO AT A TIME.

How a Malay Woodcutter Bagged Big Tigers. An extraordinary shooting adventure Is recorded by A. L. Butler, of the State Museum, Selangor, Malaya, in the last number of the Bombay Natural History Society’s Journal. One day in last July a Malay woodcutter went out into the jungle to cut fuel, taking with him, on the off-chance of a shot at deer, an old single-barreled muzzle-loading gun, loaded with the rather unscientific charge of a bullet and four buckshot. Moving quietly through the jungle, he suddenly came upon a tiger feeding on the carcass of a sambhur, and, with touching confidence in his weapon, fired at a distance of twenty paces. The tiger rolled over, and, when the Malay cautiously approached, he found not one dead tiger, but two, the second having been hidden from the sportsman, though only a few feet distant from the animal he fired at. Mr. Butler, who made a post-mortem examination of the tigers after they had been skinned, found that in each case a single buckshot had gone to the heart. One had also an insignificant wound on the head from another pellet. “For a really appalling fluke,’’ as Mr. Butler says, “this achievement of the Malay woodcutter will be hard to beat.” It is certainly not a performance any sane white man will try to parallel, much less to eclipse.