90 INDIAN BIG GAME chap, vm 



I travelled night and day, by bullock cart, 

 train, and horseback, and was back to the hills I 

 knew so well within four days. My brother was 

 alive, but a terrible wreck, the horn of the bison 

 having caught him in the back, penetrating his 

 right lung and smashing two or three ribs, one of 

 which had to be taken out as a floating bone. 

 Thanks to the kind offices of the R.A.M.C, Ban- 

 galore, who heard that no civilian doctor could be 

 spared to stay with him, Captain S. took leave, 

 and spent it beside my brother, thereby saving 

 his life ; his chief, then Major L., had arranged 

 the matter for us. I left for Mysore territory 

 again about the end of May, with the knowledge 

 that my brother was out of danger, and on the 

 understanding that I was to take over the estate 

 during his enforced absence to recuperate from 

 the shock. 



