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tonment, where having little duty to perform 

 after our review was over, I was almost constant- 

 ly in the jungle, and during the cold season bag- 

 ged a large quantity of hog, antelope, and 

 small game. In April, when the hot weather 

 set in, — and that is the time for sport, if you can 

 but stand exposure at such a season, for the hot 

 wind blows like a farnace blast, — I was ordered 

 on detachment to Nursingpoor or Gorraworra, 

 a mid out-of-the-way place on the Nerbudda, 

 surrounded with dense jungle, swarming with 

 tigers. No elephants being available, and the 

 jungle of vast extent and very thick, I could 

 only get at the tigers by means of a Gara^* or 

 by lying in wait near the spots where they re- 

 sorted for water ; and as all the Nullahs were 

 then dry, save here and there a more than 

 usually deep hole, which still contained a small 

 quantity of water, the large animals were sure 

 to visit such spots at night to allay their thirst. 

 I therefore made my Shikaree, or hunter, have 

 some small platforms, called Munchans, con- 

 structed in suitable trees, commanding those 

 watering-places. The previous monsoon had 

 been scanty, and the season, being unusually hot, 



* A bullock picketed as a bait for tigers. 



