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- “Will You Shoot A Tiger?”
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- “Both Caps Missed Fire.”
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- “Priming The Nipples.”
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- “Going Up Again.”
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- “Firing.”
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- “Tiger Charging.”
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- “Tiger Mauling My Left Shoulder.”
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- “Tiger On The Top Of Me.”
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- “Tiger Again Coming To The Charge.”
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- “Tiger Tumbling Over The Pogah.”
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- “Sitting Down On A Small Mound.”
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- “Native With A Bowl Of Water.”
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- “Giving Instructions To Bring In The Tiger.”
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- “Bringing In The Tiger.”
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- “Measuring The Tiger.”
In his 1902 book, How I Killed the Tiger, Lt. Col. Frank Sheffield of the Royal Fusiliers described his brutal encounter with a Bengal tiger. These illustration plates accompanied the text—a terrifying sort of flip book when laid out one after the other.
In this slideshow, readers see the horrifying events that led Sheffield to remark:
My main purpose in writing this little book was to place in a permanent form a description of my wonderful preservation from death in a chance encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger. My life had been adventurous up to that time. I had shot big game of various kinds. But this episode, so marvelous in itself, so important in its influence upon my after life and character, marks the close of my career as a hunter of big game.
Illustrations made possible by The Public Domain Review and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
lucky man to survive such a mauling