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prepared in the field in which it grew. The scene lit up by the 

 fire as it was fed by the crushed cane, was always a bright and 

 cheery one. The people were happy and comfortable, and as the 

 night air in that part of the country is very chilly, the fire was by 

 no means unpleasant. Presently some one, sent out to explore, 

 reports that the bears are at work in a certain part of the field. 

 Off to it we at once go, dive into the thicket and hear the enemy 

 crashing through the reeds close to us. An effort is made to make 

 him come into view or to drive him into the moonlight he is far 

 too cunning for this however, and either with an angry grunt bolts 

 into the thickest part of the plantation, or more probably stands 

 perfectly still until we have passed him. We return, have our 

 blankets spread on a heap of straw or cane leaves in a corner of the 

 mill, and regardless of the dismal noise go to sleep until the bears 

 are heard again, and we are roused to go forth once more, perhaps 

 three or four times on similar bootless errands. Morning comes and 

 we go back again, vowing that we shall never again be tempted out 

 to try to shoot bears in cane-fields. 



During three years that my regiment was quartered at Russel- 

 coiidah ; although expeditions of this sort took place, as far as some 

 of us were concerned, almost every moonlight night during the 

 sugar season and although we were almost all pretty well-trained 

 to bear shooting in an orthodox way ; I do not think that half a 

 dozen bears were killed in these trips. I do not now remember 

 being at the death of one bagged in this manner, although I must 

 have assisted in disturbing many dozens. Bears have, I know, 

 been often speared from horseback, but I have only had one oppor- 

 tunity of trying this feat. The horse I rode, a keen hog-hunter, 

 closed within spear's reach of the bear quite as readily as he would 

 have done with a boar and allowed me to use my weapon freely. 



No. 14. Arctonyx Collaris. 



JERDON, No. 93, PAGE 77 ; HOG-BADGER. 



I think I have on three occasions come upon this animal among 



the mountains N. E. of Shuay Gheen on the Sitang river in 



Upper Pegue each time early in the morning and in a deep ravine, 



I was after large game when I saw them, so could not afford to fol- 



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