A GHOORKA SOLDIER'S IMPLICIT OBEDIENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 302, 25 June 1909, Page 8

A GHOORKA SOLDIER'S IMPLICIT OBEDIENCE.

The following remarkable anecdote ■of a Grhoorka is told by a correspondent to whom it was related by tho surgeon of the regiment, who was present on the occasion : In days before the Mutiny, the commandmanis of irregular regiments had great authority over their men, and one of them, whose regiment was a Ghoorka rcgimont, stationed in the hills, used of ton to take them out with him when he went tiger-shooting. On one occasion he, his officers, and a visitor, Avent out tiger-shooting on elephants, accompanied as usual by a number of men on foot. They raised a tiger," which rushed away down a steep ravine where the elephants could not follow, and they had to go up to its head in order to cross it. One of the men, however,- followed the tiger on foot down the ravine and up the opposite side, and when he reached the top levelled his rifle to fire. The visitor saw this, and said to tho commandant, "There's that man going to fire." The commandant sliouted across the ravine, "Recover Arms," which the man immediately did, and stood like a statue for half an hour till the elephants, having rounded the head of the ravine, came up to him. "What were you going to fire .at?" said the commandant. "The tiger, sir." "Where is it?" "There," said the man, pointing to a bush about 20 yards off. The officer was greatly put "out in finding that he had exposed his man to such imminent risk for such a long time, so he got down from his elephant and stood beside him to share the danger. "Where is it?" said he to the man. "There," said the man, pointing to the same bush. The officer looked into the hush for a long time, but could not see it, so at last he said to the man, "You fire." The man fired, and shot the tiger dead.