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Fate Of The Unfortunate Munro.
FATE OF THE UNFORTUNATE MUNRO .
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend at Calcutta ,: dated on board the ship Shaw Ardasier , o ^ 'Saugur Island , December 23 , 1792 . TO describe the awful , horrid , and lamentable accident I have been an eye witness of , is impossible . '
Yesterday morning Mr . Downey , of the Company ' s troops , Lieutenant Pyefinch , and poor Mr . Munro and myself went on shore on Saugur Island to shoot deer : we saw innumerable tracks of tigers and deer ; but still we were induced to pursue our sport , and did the whole day . About half past three we sat down on the edge of the jungle , to eat some cold meat sent us from the ship , and had
just commenced our meal , when Mr . Pyefinch and a black servant told us , there was a fine deer within six yards of us . M * . Downey and I immediately jumped up to fake our guns ; mine was the nearest ; and I had but just laid hold of it , when' I heard a roar like thunder , and saw an immense royal tiger spring on the unfortunate Munro , who was sitting down : in a moment his head was in the beastmouth
' s , and he rushed into the jungle with him , with " as much ease as I could lift a kitten ; tearing him through the thickest bushes and trees , every thing yielding to his monstrous strength . The agonies of horror , regret , and , I must say , fear ( for there were two tigersmale and female ) rushed on me ' at once : the onl
, , y effort I could make , was to fire at him , though the poor youth was still in his mouth . I relied partly on Providence , partly on my own aim , and fired a musquet , I saw the tiger stagger and agitated , and cried so immediately . Mr . Downey then fired two shots , and I one more .
We retired from thejungle , and a few minutes after Mr . Munro came up to us , all over blood , and fell : we took him on our backs to the boat , and got every medical assistance for him from the Valentine Indiaman , which lay at anchor near the island , but in vain . Pie lived twenty-four hours in the extreme of torture ; his head and scull were torn , and broke to pieces , and he was wounded by the clawsall the neck and
, over shoulders ; but it was better to take him away , though irrecoverable , than leave him to be devoured limb by limb . We have just read the funeral service over the body , and committed it to the deep . He was an amiable and promising youth . I must observe there was a large fire blazing close to us , composed often or dozen whole trees : I made it myself on purpose to keep the tigers off , as I had always heard it would . There were ei ght or ten of the natives about us : many shots had been fired at
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Fate Of The Unfortunate Munro.
FATE OF THE UNFORTUNATE MUNRO .
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend at Calcutta ,: dated on board the ship Shaw Ardasier , o ^ 'Saugur Island , December 23 , 1792 . TO describe the awful , horrid , and lamentable accident I have been an eye witness of , is impossible . '
Yesterday morning Mr . Downey , of the Company ' s troops , Lieutenant Pyefinch , and poor Mr . Munro and myself went on shore on Saugur Island to shoot deer : we saw innumerable tracks of tigers and deer ; but still we were induced to pursue our sport , and did the whole day . About half past three we sat down on the edge of the jungle , to eat some cold meat sent us from the ship , and had
just commenced our meal , when Mr . Pyefinch and a black servant told us , there was a fine deer within six yards of us . M * . Downey and I immediately jumped up to fake our guns ; mine was the nearest ; and I had but just laid hold of it , when' I heard a roar like thunder , and saw an immense royal tiger spring on the unfortunate Munro , who was sitting down : in a moment his head was in the beastmouth
' s , and he rushed into the jungle with him , with " as much ease as I could lift a kitten ; tearing him through the thickest bushes and trees , every thing yielding to his monstrous strength . The agonies of horror , regret , and , I must say , fear ( for there were two tigersmale and female ) rushed on me ' at once : the onl
, , y effort I could make , was to fire at him , though the poor youth was still in his mouth . I relied partly on Providence , partly on my own aim , and fired a musquet , I saw the tiger stagger and agitated , and cried so immediately . Mr . Downey then fired two shots , and I one more .
We retired from thejungle , and a few minutes after Mr . Munro came up to us , all over blood , and fell : we took him on our backs to the boat , and got every medical assistance for him from the Valentine Indiaman , which lay at anchor near the island , but in vain . Pie lived twenty-four hours in the extreme of torture ; his head and scull were torn , and broke to pieces , and he was wounded by the clawsall the neck and
, over shoulders ; but it was better to take him away , though irrecoverable , than leave him to be devoured limb by limb . We have just read the funeral service over the body , and committed it to the deep . He was an amiable and promising youth . I must observe there was a large fire blazing close to us , composed often or dozen whole trees : I made it myself on purpose to keep the tigers off , as I had always heard it would . There were ei ght or ten of the natives about us : many shots had been fired at