CONTENTS. xv 



The Holoya Caste— The Native Beer of Mysore— Invest in a Donkey— The Beat 

 —Shoot the Leopards— The Panther's Cunning Ruse— A Sudden Eviction— Shoot 

 the Panther— A Good Bag before Breakfast— Government Reward for Shooting 

 Panthers and Leopards — Circumventing Cunning Panthers — Our Ears Deceive us 

 — My Last Meeting with a Panther— His Strange Behaviour— The Interview Ter- 

 minates Unsatisfactorily. ......•• 352 



CHAPTER XXVL 



THE INDIAN BLACK BEAR (URSUS LABIATUS). 



Description of— Habits and Disposition — She-Bears Carrying their Cubs — Wounded 

 Bears Attacking Each Other — Food — Bears Drinking Henda — Eating Flesh — 

 Danger of Meeting Bears — Modes of Hunting Bears — A Hard but Successful Day 

 — Bag Four Bears — Jungle-Surgery — Bears at Sakrapatam — The Iyenkerry Lake 

 — Felonious Bears — Execute Two out of Five — Make a Further Example of Two 

 More — Boxer and Rosie — Shoot a Bear before a Large Assembly — Native Belief 

 Regarding Bears Carrying off Women — Killing Bears with Dogs and a Knife. . 365 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



DOGS FOR INDIAN * HUNTING. 



Jackal-Hunting with Fox-Hounds — Greyhounds — Fox and Hare Coursing — A Foot- 

 Pack in Dacca — Dogs for Hunting Formidable Game — Sir Samuel Baker's Sport 

 in Ceylon — Bull-Dogs for Hunting Bears, Bison, Buffaloes, &c. — Constitution of 

 a Pack — Incidents in Large-Game Hunting with Dogs — My First Attempt — The 

 Pack Seize a Bear — Another Bear-Hunt — Obliged to Shoot the Bear — Damage 

 Sustained by the Pack — A Bison-Hunt — Bill Sykes — Motto for Seizers — The 

 Dogs are almost Choked — The Pack Seize a Young Elephant — A Commemoration 

 Dinner — Bill Sykes Distinguishes Himself Single-Handed — Fight with a Panther 

 — Objection to Spiked Collars for Hunting-Dogs. ..... 378 



