ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT 



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Tree forest and old riv^er bed on the Ramganga in the Terai, 



United Provinces ....... 256 



The hincheon during a tiger shoot in the hot weather in the 



Terai Jungles ........ 264 



Starting out for the fiirst beat after luncheon . . . 264 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT 



Wild elephants feeding on the jungle men's paddy crops . 

 Jungle men sitting in a machan to protect their crops from wild 

 animals ...... 



A clump of bamboos in the Chota Nagpur jungles 



I was brought to a standstill by the vision of the bull facing me 



The furtive waj^s of the hyena 



The village headman was already on his way to me 



The " kill " tied up for a tiger 



The tiger appears 



The dirge-like wail of the jackal . 



Wild dog were plentiful 



Rolled up in a blanket on a camp cot 



The bear rose up . . . 



The leopard inspects the goat from a distance 



A dead cow with two crows upon it 



Vultures sat about in the trees . 



Two black crows sat and cursed me 



The bear stood on his hind legs and went for him 



A bison stampeding away . 



My Khansamah .... 



The khakar or barking deer 



Saw the bull viciously charging down on me 



Head of a tiger ..... 



Two crows sat contemplating the kill . 

 A couple of vultures perched in a tree . 

 Without a sound a fine tiger stepped out 

 The old Rajput Forest Ranger . 

 A dead tiger ..... 



The leopard climbed up towards me 



The leopard went clean through the gateway at a bound 



A number of big grey lungoor monkeys 



A young barking deer 



It was the agonized mother 



The bear slinking off up the hill-side 



It was the old boar 



He was only a pi-dog 



I dropped on my knee and fired at the mithan 



An old tusker wild elephant marching through the forest 



Shooting from the back of an elephant .... 



The elephants undertook the summer migration to the hills 



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