tigersprung

"It is evident our surveyors had no tiger charmers in their retinue, for the entries in their field books of attacks made by these animals, either on the persons of their attendants or upon the boats, are very numerous; for instance, an entry dated 1812 runs as follows:—

'Whilst the people were cooking their dinners on the bank of Saugor Island, a tiger sprung upon an old dandie, (sailor) One of my sepoys advanced with a hatchet (with which he had been cutting wood) and is said to have hit the tiger on the head ; the blow however was fatal to himself, for the tiger left the old man who was not much hurt and carried off the sepoy.'

"The Gangetic Delta," The Calcutta Review (1859), v. 32, p. 17