WHISKERS OF TIGERS
POISON IN THE HAIRS. USE BY MURDERERS. The Nawab Naim Yar Jung Bahadur, who lately arrived in London, governs a piece of India measuring 4000 squares miles, called Bhir, in Hyderabad. He is a commanding figure with a jet black beard. “I am on a pilgrimage,” the Nawab said, “which will take me to nine countries, and I shall visit as many mosques, in each country as I possibly can. The day I arrived 1 visited the mosque at Weybridge. My pilgrimage will end when I reach Mecca and when I return to my home I shall have won my djibbaht, which means ‘the garb.’ a kind of coat which a Mohammedan is entitled to wear only after making a pilgrimage.” The Nawab is the hero of thousands of people at home on account of his prowess as a tiger hunter. Eight of the 36 tigers he has bagged were maneaters which had eaten 20 men, women and children before they fell to his gun. The related to an interviewer some strange facts about tigers. “Did you know that a tiger’s whiskers are poisonous?” asked the Nawab. “Murders have been committed with them. “The whiskers are cut into small pieces and administered in food, and anybody eating such a meal dies in agony. We take care that no man attending a tiger hunt has a chance to take away its poisonous whiskers.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 279, 9 November 1931, Page 5
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