496 CONFLICT WITH A TIGER ON THE MALABAR COAST. 



Address of Earl Stanhope, President of the Med ico-r Botanical Society, for the 

 Anniversary Meeting, Jan. 16, 1837- London : J. Wilson, Piccadilly. 



From the amiable and scientific spirit pervading this Address, no one will 

 venture to deny that its noble author amply deserves the respect and esteem in 

 which he is held by the institution over which he presides. A critical notice 

 would here be out of place ; but we may observe that we object to the generic 

 names of the plants being in small capitals. Not only is it a departure from 

 the usual method, but it appears to be unattended by any counterbalancing 

 advantage. 



CONFLICT WITH A TIGER ON THE MALABAR COAST. 



With regard to Mr. Tileb's book on birds, beasts, fishes, insects, &c, we shall 

 content ourselves with making the following extract from its pages : — 



There is now living in the village of Kildwick, in Craven, Yorkshire, a Mr. 

 Turner, who, at an early period of his life, was in the East Indies, as a soldier 

 in one of the regiments stationed there. When encamped at Ganjam, on the 

 Malabar coast, he had a dreadful personal conflict with a huge Tiger. With the 

 particulars of the affray, Mr. Turner himself has obligingly furnished us for this 

 work. He is, probably, the only living instance of an individual encountering a 

 Tiger, under such circumstances, and remaining, as he certainly did so, by the 

 retreat of the enemy, master of the field. 



On the day the regiment arrived at Ganjam, two men belonging to it, named 

 Bateman and Murray, had gone upon a contiguous mountain without fire-arms, 

 and had been put into considerable consternation by a large black Bear. The 

 next morning they invited Mr. Turner to accompany them to the same place ; 

 and took with them two muskets and bayonets, with six rounds of ammunition, 

 as a prudential defence against the dangers they might probably encounter. 

 Having ascended the summit of the mountain, Mr. Turner perceived a small, 

 loose rock, upon the edge of a lofty precipice, and tumbled it down, for the purpose 

 of disturbing, from their lurking places, the wild and savage tenantry of the place. 

 The result was immediately seen ; for one of the party shouted out " a Tiger ! a 

 Tiger ! " and fired upon it, when they all immediately recognized a large royal 

 Tiger, that turned his eyes upon his enemies, and paralyzed them with a dreadful 

 roar, as he doubled the angle of the mountain, in proceeding to his lair. This, 

 unfortunately, lay directly upon the path by which they had ascended the moun- 

 tain, and being the only safe road by which they could descend the eminence, the 

 Tiger's position cut off their retreat. Recovering a little from their consternation, 



