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Gringalet, who was let loose, ran towards the enormous creature, and barked at it from a safe distance. The Indian came up, with his gun upon his shoulder. "The beast is justly mine, isn't it, Tatita, and I am still the tiger-hunter?" "Yes," I replied; "but let the tigers alone, if they will allow you, and let us go to rest."
In the evening of that same day he had an adventure which induced him to suspect, more strongly even than Bunco, that terrestrial paradise was indeed still a long way off. The party landed at a small clearing, where they were hospitably received by a professional tiger-hunter, who, although nearly half-naked and almost black, was a very dignified personage, and called himself Don Emanuel.
"Carrambo! no, senorito," replied the tiger-hunter, now laughing outright; "that's not the sort of food the fellow is fond of. You'll see it presently. By good luck, it's just in season now just as the bears fancy it or else we needn't look to start them here. We should have to go further up the mountains: where they are more difficult both to find and follow.
As they talked others came to join them two old men, one fully eighty, an old tiger-hunter, with bent back, grizzled face, and patriarchal beard. The two newcomers carried the old Korean sporting rifles. Other soldiers of the retreating force were outside. There was a growing tumult in the street. How long would it be before the triumphant Japanese, following up their victory, attacked the town?
Just such a man was the guide whom our young hunters had engaged, and who, though a tiger-hunter by profession, was equally expert at the capturing of a bear when one of these animals chanced to stray down from the higher slopes of the mountains, into the warmer country frequented by the jaguars.
Manuela laughed lightly as she stepped out of her hammock. "They've just roused us in good time," continued Pedro, looking up between the tree-tops at the sky, "for the hut of the tiger-hunter is a long way off, and I'm anxious to reach it before dark."
He spoke of M. Guizot having mentioned this to him; of M. Thiers, who dined with him lately, having said that to him; of Prince Max de Beauvau, whom he bet with at the last Versailles races; of the beautiful Madame de Magnoncourt, with whom he danced at the English ambassador's ball; of twenty other distinguished personages with whom he was intimate, and finally he mentioned Prince Roger de Monbert, the eccentric tiger-hunter, who for the last two months had been the lion of Paris.
He was what is termed a "tigrero," or tiger-hunter which title he derived from the fact that the jaguar was the principal object of his pursuit. A hunter of the jaguar is therefore denominated a "tiger-hunter," or tigrero.
Towering high above the heads of the crowd which opened before him with alacrity, the admiration received by the Prince's ally and friend was but a well-deserved tribute. "A tiger-hunter!" said one, to a friend at his elbow. "I should call him king of the tiger-hunters," the friend replied. "Only a Prince of India would carry such a pensioner with him," another remarked.
My curiosity was raised; for this ghost was an animal called a tapir, which the Indians believe possessed of supernatural powers; and, as I had never met with one, I was anxious that we should come across it. "And didn't you aim at it?" cried my friend. "No; I ran away," replied the fearless tiger-hunter.
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