Identifier: thrillingadventu00bray (find matches)
Title: Thrilling adventures by land and sea. Being remarkable historical facts, gathered from authentic sources
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Brayman, James O., 1815-1887, ed
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Buffalo, G. H. Derby and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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aw all the devilalive there. The will remained — the power onlyhad gone. It was a sight never to be forgotten.With head raised to the full stretch of his neck,he glared at me with an expression of such malig-nity, that it almost made one quail. I thought ofthe native superstition of singeing off the whiskersof the newly killed tiger to lay his spirit, and nolonger wondered at it. With ears back, and mouthbleeding, he growled and roared in fitful uncertainty,as if he were trying, but unable, to measure theextent of the force that had laid him low. Motionless myself, provocation ceased, and with-out further attempt to get on his legs, he continuedto gaze on me; when I slowly lowered my head tothe sight, and again pulled trigger. This time, trueto the mark, the ball entered just above the breast-bone, and the smoke cleared off with his death-groan. There he lay, foot to foot with his victimof last night, motionless — dead. My first impulsewas to tear down the door behind, and get a \
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BY LAND AND SEA. 3l7 thorough view of his proportions ; but rememberingthat his companion, the tigress, had vanished onlya short time ago close to the scene of action, Ithought it as well to remain where I was; so, en-larging the windows with my hands, I took a longlook, and then jovially attacked the coffee withoutreference to noise, and fell back on the mattress tosleep, or to think the nights work over. At last,I have got him : his skin will be pegged out to-morrow, drying before the tent door. When mypeople came in the morning, they found me seatedon the dead tiger. Coolies were sent for to carrythe beast, and I gave the pony his reins all theway back to the tent. Fuaseus Magazine. ATTACK OF BOONSBOROUGH. On the tenth of March, 1778, Daniel Boone,having been taken prisoner by the Indians, wasconducted to Detroit, when Governor Hamiltonhimself offered one hundred pounds sterling, for hisransom ; but so great was the affection of the Indiansfor their prisoner, that it was positively

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