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tea planter treed,
BITTEN BY SNAKE
ANGRY TIGRESS BELOW,
(Received 8.22 a.m.) DELHI, November 12
An Assam ten planter had a narrow escape between a tigress and a snake. The planter having shot a tiger waited rill night for the tigress, which waded across the river.
The planter was trying to catch a cub when a crashing in the jungle behind him made him realise his folly. Ho climbed a tree', the tigress missing him by inches.
The planter was left perched aloft, with the uncomfortable sensation that his fully cocked gun was leaning against a. tree and was liable to be discharged by the tigress and fire in his .direction.
Upon reaching the highest bough he was promptly bitten by a snake. Ho cut out the poison and applied a rough tourniquet to prevent his fainting and falling down where the tigress was still waiting.
He was rescued from his perilous) position by an Indian, who. climbing an adjacent tree seared off the tigress with much firing.
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Northern Advocate, 14 November 1929, Page 5
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