The Indian Lion 



for four lions, but unhappily Major Carnegy, of the 

 Political Department, was attacked by a wounded lion 

 and killed before his companions could despatch the 

 beast, and the hunt was in consequence brought to 

 a premature close. 



Going back to earlier days, we find in the Oriental 

 Sporting Magazine for 1832 over the signature of 

 " Collector," whose address is given as Baroda, a full 

 account of two sportsmen shooting a large lion off 

 elephants ; and in the Bengal Sporting Magazine of 

 October 1838 a writer signing himself " Katty war " 

 states that he shot eleven lions between the 14th and 

 24th of May, to which three more were added between 

 the 1 9th and 2 yth of July. Throughout the later volumes 

 of the Bengal Sporting Magazine^ the India Sporting 

 Review and the revived Oriental Sporting Magazine^ 

 which followed it, there are occasional articles descrip- 

 tive of lion -shooting ; and in the Asian for June 30, 

 1885, Colonel Martin related how he and General 

 Travers killed two lions on a hill to the west of Goona 

 in Gwalior in i860, and two years later he and Colonel 

 Beadon at Patulghur, some seventy miles north-west 

 of Goona, bagged no less than eight. One of the last 

 lions killed in Central India was shot by Sir Montague 

 Gerrard at Cheen Hill, nine miles from Goona, on 

 Waterloo Day 1872 ; and in the Asian of April 7, 

 1893, mention is made of another shot by Colonel 

 Hill in 1873. In Guzerat — exclusive of Kathiawar — 

 the last survivor is said to have been killed in 1888. 

 Since that date there have been no lions elsewhere 

 than in the Gir. 



In the wild district between Saugor and Jhansi 

 lions were by no means very uncommon about forty 

 years ago. In 1866 two engineers engaged in the 

 construction of the railway between Allahabad and 

 Jabalpur shot one close to the line ; and about 

 thirty years before lions were comparatively common 

 in the Ahmedabad district, while in the first and 



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