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While engaged in devouring his favourite negro-head, he appears indifferent to any danger that may threaten him. Of this our hunters had proof, and very shortly after entering among the tagua trees. As the tigrero had predicted, they soon came upon the "sign" of a bear, and almost in the same instant discovered Bruin himself browsing upon the fruit.
The left arm is held well forward, so that the woollen mass may cover his body against the bound of the animal, and thus is the attack received. The jaguar, like all feline quadrupeds, springs directly forward upon his prey. The tigrero prepared for this, and, with every nerve braced, receives the assailant upon the point of his short spear.
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.
But the tigrero could scarce make out to live upon the sale of the skins alone; for although a London furrier will charge from two to three guineas for a jaguar's robe, the poor hunter in his remote wilderness market can obtain little more than a tenth part of this price notwithstanding that he has to risk his life, before he can strip the fair mantle from the shoulders of its original wearer.
"Just so, senorito!" rejoined the man; "that is what brings him down here." "Why, the voracious brute!" said Ivan; "you don't mean to say that he makes food of the heads of the poor negroes?" "Oh no!" replied the tigrero, smiling in his turn; "it is not that." "What then?" impatiently inquired Ivan. "I've heard of negro-head tobacco. He's not a tobacco chewer, is he?"
It is not always that the tigrero succeeds in destroying his enemy without receiving a scratch or two in return; but a daring hunter makes light of such wounds for these scars become badges of distinction, and give him eclat among the villages of the Montana.
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