Pot Shots at Tigers with a Revolver: Interesting Trip Planued by Local Markeman Commander E. H. Cope of the U. S. Navy, who has been stationed at Shanghai for the past two years as paymaster of the Asiatic station, sailed on Friday morning by the French mail steamer Porthos for French Indo-China and, ater, for America vid Suez. He will spend 45 days in Indo-China and Annam on a big hunt for wild game. This is w country which is considered among the richest in the world and has been so little exploited that tigers are said to be found often sleeping in the paths which run parallel to and short distances from the new railway line running out of Saigon. Commander Cope carries with him thesicles his camping outfit, and medicine kit, two Springfield rifles which have been converted into sporting guns, one 45-70 Winchester sporting model, a 45 Smith and Wesson revolver, a.45 Automatic, and two shot guns. He says that he expects to shoot tiger with his revolver, a thing which has never been known to have been done. As he has never missed anything with his revolver yet, he is likely to carry out his intention. The plan is to go by elephant caravan with a company of native beaters and servants. Hunting is only done in the hours of daylight before ten in the morning and after four in the afternoon, as the middle of the day is quite unbearably hot even in the cooler months of the year Besides the usual tigers, wild elephant, rhinoceros, and—hippopotamus, which are found there, a very wild kind of buffalo called the salidang is 'a native of the district. Tt is in appearance much like a Jersey bull only about four times as large. tawny coloured, and very fierce. This animal is often found in the tall grass plots of the jungles and charges at close quarters. Though they are very tough and hard to kill, the aboriginal Mois tribes of—that district, who go out as beaters for hunting parties, hunt them with bow and arrow.
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