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For: a fortnight we had been slow-
ly, ascending the Nein-Qhan River in
Indo-China., and now, on the fif-
teenth day, having quitted this
etreram, aur caravan began the la-
borious asoetnt of Mount Peru -Hong,
which we had to cross before mak-
ing for the Chinese frontier, eays a
writer in the Wide World Magazine,
The . missnon oln which I was en-
gaged threatened to prolong itself
much beyond the time anticipated.
The rivers, swollen by recent heavy
storms, retarded our progress, and
the slopes of the Pou-Hong Moun-
tains were iuterseated by deep ere-
vases. which it ways impossible to
erase by the usual means of felled
trees on account of our hooses. -We
were forced, therefore, to vend
whole days in going around the
precipices, these erratic zigzags
dobling or trebling the length of
our journey. Some of the creias-
res were veritable abysses, the
depth of which no, eye could fathom.
Often in their depths, concealed by
luxuriant vegetation, mighty tor-
rents rushed along, precipitating
themselves in cascade after cascade
toward the v alley.
During the day the silence was
unbroken, save for the calls of the
guide and the piercing cries of mon-
keys chasing each other from
branch to branch. At night, how-
ever, life violent and intense awoke
our camp; all the animals in crea-
tion seemedto have a, rendezvous
there to disturb our rest. We had
to protect ourselves against tigers
by lighting huge fires, for so nu-
merous are they in thisdi,srtricttbart
no native ever ventures to go near
it alone. The temerity of these
brutes is so great that they will.
sometimes, eonie and carry off a
man from the -midst of his sleeping
companions. The negligence of a
sentinel in letting the fires get low
for an instant has often caused the
death of travellers. . They have dis-
appeared, and no one has even seen
the man-eater carry off his prey.
'brie night, when I was in a pro-
found sleep after a hard clay's
march, I was awakened by a most
terrific chorus. of roars. All the
tigers in the forest must be attack-
ing, our camp, I thought, and I
rushed out of my tent, fearing to
find the 'guards asleep and the fires
quenched Happily epy Betts were
false. A bright circle of flame
girdled the camp, and, it was im-
possible for our tawny foes to ap-
proach us without being seen.
Reassured, I' stretched myselfon
my mat again, and was just about
bo drop off into the slumber which
ad been so ruthles's'ly interrupted
by the uproar, when one of the sen-
tinels came up.
"Captain," be e.aid, 'II can dis-
tinguish human cries • amid the roar-
ing of the tigers. I amt certain that
not very far away there are amen
whom those tigers are preparing to
devour."
I listened and very soon satisfied
myself that the mart had not been
mistaken. I at once sent for the
chief of the native militiasnen, who
acted as my escort.
"W'e must go to the assiistance of
the unfortunate amen whose cries
of distress- we hear," I staid to him,.
"Tell your men to arm and provide
half the porters with torches, -The.
other half must stay and guard the
camp in our absenoe,"
"Captain.," he replied, "it would
be folly on our part to venture into
those dense thickets, To judge by
the roaring, the tigers, are in great
numbers. Excited by the smell of
blood, they will spring on us before
the fitful light of the torches .allows
of our seeing than and we shall lose
many men and save no one, Lis-
ten 1 One no longer hears human
cries. The poor unfortunates must
have perished by now."
At 5 o'clo•ck in the seeming I'
started off with a dozen. weld.-arineri
risen, <me of the soldiers, a native of
this part of the counrbre, (&citing as
guide, We headedin the direction
whence the prieshad come, but so
difiloulrt was {th going through
thickets and briars that it, took nit
nearly an hour to oover 5
Then at last we came out into a
cleaning, where ,a, 1riost terrifying
speeteele met our gaze, Even my
men 1'•e'oolled. iu horror, and they
belonged to a race wlhose imp+assi-
vitt' is not easily shaken.
Never before had our eyes beheld
such a shambles, The ground, red-
dened with blood, was soft and wet,
and there had been no rain for two
months. Here and there lay great
pools of blood which the earth had
not yet absorbed. Everywhere
were human remains — fleshless
heads, mangled arms and legs.
Shereds of clothing and bemired
shoes still clung to the ghastly relics
which the satiated beasts had re-
grset£nlly abandoned. Ravens and
vultures—conte to -take their share
of tire feast after ,the departure. of
the tigers—rose and flapped, heavily
away at our approach, and, after
circling around for some moments,
perched on neighboring trees, loud-
ly croaking their protests at our
inopportune arrival.
My attention was next drawn to
the singular attitude of some of the
bodies, which the beasts had ap-
parently not been able to tear
away from the tree trunks against
which they leaned. We soon dis-
covered why this was—the wretched
men had°been tied there and had
been devoured as they stood, with-
out the' ropes by which they were
bound having given away! On other
trees I saw more ropes hanging,.
covered with blood. At one place
th'er'e was a veritable mound of
human remains, es if the tigers,
gorged to repletion, had stacked
them there for future orgies.
When I had pulled myself toge-
ther somewhat I ,rent to the camp.
for spades and picks to dig a trench
in which to bury these sad remains.
Just to pass awsuy the time waiting
I counted the trees whose bark
bore the tell --tale blood smear.
Theme were fifty-six ! Fifty-six poor
creatures bad met their death
bhffs awful way, then, during the
night.
It was utterly unable to fathom
the meaning of what exactly had
taken place in this clearing and I
began to think' I should never solve
the mystery when suddenly it was
revealed in the most unexpected
way. After having dug . a trench
ray men buried therein what the
tigers had left of their wretched
victims. Toward the• end of this
dreadful task they discovered to
their astonishment a body almost
intact at the bottom of the mound,
The bands only were missing but
they did not appear to have been
taken of 'by the 'teeth of a tiger ; the
wounds were too even to heave been
done with an�,thing but'a sharp in-
strument.
In all likelihood this body had
been brought here by a tiger, which,
at the moment of beginning to de-
vour it, had, for some unknown
reason, abandoned it. All sorts of
debris was then piled up an, the poor
unfortunate, and this served as a
protection against the voracity of
the wild beasts.
"Captain," cried my head man,
when he had succeeded ixr extricat-
ing the body from the dreadful re-
mains. that covered it, "this unfor-
tunate man is not dead; I am sure
of it l"
Indeed, as I speedily•ascertained,
the heart of the native was still
beating. I hastened to let a few
drops of brandy trickle into his
mouth, and this soon 'brought him
back to consciousness, Presently
his lids 'lifted and he looked at us
in terror:
"Don't be frightened," I said to
him. "You aro among people who
will do,you no hurt. My men are
going to carry you to my camp,
where we will dress your wounds,
When you acre better you will be at
liberty to remein with us ter rejoin
your people, wherever they are,"
After he had recovered somewhat;
from his weakness, he gave me an
explanation of the tragedy of the
forest, Here is the tale he told, and
a more terrfbla `isle I novo heard,
You beVe, doubtless, heard ofthe
war w.hdelh br'Oke lout. between
Prince Ong Hoa and Prince Ql1 nh
Teu after the death of their Seigler,
the King of Xong Det, Ti nion-
aroh had chosen his second son,
Quante Ten,. as h1a all aes,s�cl�i=, to the
detriment of his eldest sail Ong
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had not been able to withstand the
pleadings of Quenh Tam's Mother,
and during ,his lifetime 'he had this
son piooirunred king of Siong tact.
When the old king was dead�M
poisoned, some said, by the mother
of. Quanh Teu, whci was impatei,�i;
to see her son on the thr�o�ne--.Prince
Ong 1 elo refused to recognize his
brother's authomity, He ft -rifled his
adherents,• who were :nuanerous,
arid, after a n>unber of smaller sue-
eesses, earue and' besieged Qtaadlh
Teu in his capital. His success here
seeiped ass' sexed, when, through the
treachery of. one of his lieutenants.,
he fell into his brother's rands. This
catastrophe so terrified Ong Keo's
army that, instead of continuing
the struggle in order to "save their
ehtef, they dispereed in the space
of a few days, Quarah Tau, who had
believed himself lost, took a cruel
revenge. ;He had all tihese whip had
taken up earns ag<lha,iat him sought
out Nand beheaded, with -the excep-
tion of those chiefs Who were .notor-
iously devoted to his brother;,irhese
he reserved' for an even .worse', fate.
The very refinement of torture
was inflicted- on ;Prince' Ong Keo
—
end you knew how fertile is the
iniaginatrion of the ' people of our
oountry when it comes to inventing
torments !
When his body was nothi more
than one ;neat wound, he- w s im-
paled, in the presence of those who
had sustained him 'in his revolt, .and.
his mangled corpse. was finally
thrown to starving dogs in a neigh-
boring shed. A strong •esoort then
conducted us who remained toward
this, forest of Danghoa; it is par-
ticularly dreaded on account of the
number and ferocity of the tigers it
harbors. After some days' march
-we halted in the clearing where you
found me amonig all that . remaa;ned
of those wtho were my 'oomipanioes
in arms. Here we were brought up,
one by one, to a block, and the exe-
cutioner out off our hands, so as to
render our flight impossible. Then
each of us was securely lashed to a
tree, and the eseert,. set off. on its
return journey to Xong ,Det. Be-
fore they went, however, they Laid a
trail of our severed hands, the bet-
ter to attract the tigers to use
It was about noon when: we w
thus abandoned by those who o
ried out the orders of the fiendi
Quanh Teu, The afternoon passs
We suffered agonies from our n.
latecl arms. During the first hon
no one murmured, but wittll
passing time one heard moans, th
eries, then 'shrieks, then here a
there a death rattle.
When night fell the tigers had a
ready scented us, and we could he
them prowling close by. . The eras
ing of branches and undergrow
told us that the circle of'feroafo
man-eaters was closing in upon ;t
When it became quite dark we ria
the eyes of the beasts gleaming fro
the thickets, impatient to hu
themselves on their prey. But th
scene evidently astonish
and frightened them; they dare
not venture into the clearing, fe
ing a trap, They'. seemed to encou
age one another . to advance by ter
rible roars, which froze us with ter
ror, but still they did not come.
forgot even. the pain of my wound
as I momentarily anticipated feelin
the claws of the awful brutes.whi
growled behind me sink into m
flesh. It was a refinement of cruel
ty, of which, perhaps, King Quan
had not thought. Had h
known, however, it would have fill
ed him with content.
This dreadful agony of mind and
body, from which there was no
chance of escape, ended in over
throwing the reason of the weaker
ones among us. The prolonged ter-
ror drove several men mad, and
they began to imitate the roaring of
the tigers; they -howled so.herribly
that the wild bets, .disquieted, -be-
oam•e silent for some moments, and
seemed to withdraw from u.s.
But it was only a short reprieve..
Very _soon they returned ; and, this
time grown bolder, they creme into
the clearing. O�Iie of thein, more
daring than the rest, suddenly
bounded on to one 'of my comrades
who was nearest to him. It was the
signal for the beginning of the car-
nage, . With ferocious howls the
tigers eprang on the victim's w•ho.
were thus offered to their `rorsoity
sand my comrades' cries of suffering.
were speedily silenced. Almost ian-
medirartsly I lost eoaisciousness,
overoorme by a blow from the power -
f ni paw of a great brute I vaguely
saw Bier#r1 ng at rule, From that
mint renle+nibered nothing
mere,
In truth., the unfortunate man'
bore on his head and chest deep
marks el 'the claws that heel l.aoar-
ated hire. It ee�s`mre probable giattlme
t.$ger, se coedin• in biting through
the coeds which bound the man,had
c tri d hien to th,e centre of the
c e'a{rin8, where w'8 found rl}im l then
ppet airs—sop1e more enticing bait
lured the bei asi'ay eruct 4 for,
got the prey it ,head been aheuit to
devour.
Th p.�afrive's e�rands were terri-
ble, but none of them ap red t
be mortal. for two or t riX3 d:.
had every hope of saving 1 fl
Iraappily he - 'Ipeas Igo
Breis of blood that, despite & ray
care, he died eti the fifth day,
I hurried his burial in order that
we aright get out of this horrible
forest, wheel had become r -
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knew that 'agora 1a.alowled round the
oemp thirsting again for •the human
blood they hand been drenched in..
Stnnetilnes, by the sudden Ilene of a
dry brawl; thrown en .a smoulder-
ing Are, the sentinel!~ would see the
great brutes, surprised by the Bud-
den brilliauee, bound away .and lis-
appear in the thickets. One night.
two of ,our horses, maddened with
fear at the smell of the tigers, broke
their hobbles and took to fight Tho
poor animals did not get fax before
the plan -eaters: we're hot on their
heels, and soon terrible, roarings
told us of the death of our poor
steeds, All that night the ferocious
beasts made a frightful uproar, and
we had to keep constant watch over
our remaining horses, whose in-
stint seemed` to tell' them the fate
of their oompanion,s. Under the in-
ileenoe of terror .these animal's,
usually so docile, seemed no longer
to recognize their masters, and tried
madly to break their ropes and fly
the danger which they thought -mer -
aced therm.
All of us had to remain en the qui
vitt until dawn `broke. , With the
first rays. of the siie the uproar
ceased, and we- were at last .able
to .take a few hours' well-earned re
pose..
Even our depa.r•ttire diel not rid
us of these disquieting neighbors.
Tibe tigers followed my caravan all
the time we travelled through the
forest of Danaboa,. Our sleep was
constantly' broken by their howling
and roaring; and I was constrained.
to watch the fires myself during part.
of each night, fearing' :that some
negligence on the part• of a guard
might cost us our lives. This tiger-
hunt—with the roles reversed—only
ceased on:= the day when *e .were.
able to put the obsitaole of.°a: large
river between our pur.eners and
ourselves. Although it is not an un-
usual thing to see tigersswima ri-
ver, they did not venture into un-
known country this time. proba-
bly hunger was not pressing them
sufficiently,: and they, :n doubt, re-
turned to that gruesome clearing in
the forest which recalled to them a
memorable feast,
A FAl1l0US CHEMIST.
David Hooper Had a Distinguished
Career in India.
Mr. David" Hooper, one of : the
most distinguished chemists in the
world, has+had 1a career of great in-
terest. In 1907 he .was awarded .the:
Hamburg Medal, the world's high-
est honor in pharmsoy. For thirty.
years he eonduated scientific work
in India, but is row. retired.
Mr. Hooper - was born in Redhill;
Surrey, en May 1, 1858. In 1873, he
was apprenticed in e pharmacy in
London, On . leaving: London he
went to • Cambridge and Clifton, and
l t \
1FLr.
,David: Hooper,
teak. lip ;the study. of botany by at-
tending • lectures, and With the Use
of B.abingbbn's• "Manual". he matte
a 'aaollection of seven !hundred B,ri-
tish plants, which was ewa.rdled the
bronze Herbarium Medal of the
Pharmaceutical Society in 1878.
Next year he entered the School. of
Pharmacy, and carrra�ed off the ail.
ver medals .inir-batatlky, materia, m;ecli-
ea, and practical .chemistry, and in
1880 the Pereira M,e'rdlrll,, the :blue'
ribbon of ph,arntacy, was arwarded
to him.
HD first paper read before the
Students' Association. "The Medici-
nal Flora cf :A.fghanlstan," indi-
egibed the djreetion ;of his future
life -work, and. a subsequent paper
on •tl;-a 44Coffee-10,94 I)is�ease of 0615 -,y -
lore" showed a, predilection for a.iie
in the Baia, He became ohemist :tta
Birmingham, and itt 1884 ler applied
fer • th•e past of qu�►iaologisa to the
1!I4va Government, advertised
through the India .Ofi-ce, and the<
committee, ceasisting of . Sir Joseph
bayrer, Sir : George Birdwood, and
Dry Maonamara, had 1i,tble liesita-
noxi i a s�alecti.ng Ir, Hooper for the
appoi>2tinent oiit of about l" thirty
LaTididates,
]lilliit Q,iilinine Factory.
?Y Ir; ,#1ogpe, 7 sirrjve4 an Ootac
mu1?d Su ting raiOfid: Hills trlta;t fatbl,
tin , pJ>lri�_e,d into •tire various preb-.
leims� of Old chemistry 'of cinchona,
eultivaitiuon, made thousands of an,aa-
lyses of the hark, and suggested
pettlilaa for inch asrng and improv
lfvar 1 tg
.fho Value Of the prod,uet, All
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1EIMMMfIEiraim alnBllttnapialualri:; tuaagnantl manarialinp ani
the estate of South India were aria,-
lyzed,, and the values of the trees
grown underedifferemt conditions of
age, son, aspect, and elevation were
investigated. One of the most, prac-
tical results of the, 'work, and one
which was calculated to bring the
price•of quinine within the meads of
the natives, of India, -was the, ef'tab
lishanent of a quinine factory.
Mr. Hooper, after determining
the composition of einehona bark
grown ,under different conditions,
turned his attention to the numer-
ous vegetable products used by the
inhabitants or sold in the bazaars,
and -proceeded to examin'e then
chemically. During his residence in
South •India he became consulting
agricultural chemist in all the
planting districts wh'ere cinchona
tea and coffee;'were cultivated, and
for two yearswas examiner in che-
mistry to the University of Madras.
In 1896 Mr. Hooper wae appoint-
ed to officiate' for Dr. George`Watt,
in Calcutta, as reporter on econo-
mic ,products to the Governanent of
India, and in 1897, when . the . posit
of Governnaent Quinologist - was
abolished in <Madras, he ':became
curator of the industrial section of
the. Indian Museum. The 1.argel
number of samples constantly being
received in the museum from ail'
parts of India offered a vast field'
for researoh, and with the perinis-'
siom . of the trustees a chemical
laboratory was estabished, and Mr.,
Hooper, tangle -handed, som,meneed
the elueid:ata;on of their active eoa-
sitituents. It was's, change from the
salubrious heights of the Nilgiris to
the steamy plains of Lower Bengal,'
and many another man might have'
grown disgusted and retired or have
been. invalided home, but he was
too devoted to his subject. to be
affected by climatic conditions.
Mr, Hooper's wife and family:
lived for years in Switzerland, not
being able to stand the climate of
India. When he retired, Mr.l
Hooper was Economic Botanist of
the Botanical Survey of India.
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a man out when he's had enough.
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