GLOSSARY 401 



Hlla. Male buffalo. Here used to denote a young male buffalo 

 calf. 



Hbli. A Hindu festival of a Bacchanalian, Eleusinian kind. 



Jamaddr. A kind of semi-military rank. A " commander of a 

 guard." Here meaning the native assistant who controls a 

 Government forest post. 



Jdt. A tribe of Hindus inhabiting the Delhi and neighbouring 

 districts, and one of the classes enlisted as soldiers in the 

 Indian Army. 



Jawdri (Sorghum vulgare). Indian giant millet. 

 Jungle. The opposite of inhabited land ; it may be either a path- 

 less forest or a mere stretch of uncultivated grass and scrub. 



Kadbi (or Karbi}. Dried stalks of jawdri. 



Kamarband. " Waist-binding " waist-cloth. 



Karunda. Thorny evergreen bush, bearing a pleasant, slightly 

 acid pulpy berry. 



Kawit. A medium-sized tree with small leaves, bearing a hard 

 round fruit the size of a cricket-ball. The inside is soft, and 

 when dried and filled with gunpowder, is used as a bomb to 

 scare animals from thick covert, caves, etc., in which they 

 may have taken refuge. 



Khdkar (Cervulus aureus). The barking deer, rib-faced deer, or 

 muntjak. 



Khandi. An Indian unit of measure twenty-five in number. 

 A loose term for "any amount." 



Khora. A glen small or big, or a deep ravine in a hillside. 



Khubbar (or Khabr). News news of the whereabouts of wild 

 animals. 



Kismat. Fate. Luck. 



Koel. The Indian hawk-cuckoo. The "Brain-fever bird" of Anglo- 

 Indians ; possessing a beautiful mellow note that> during the 

 height of the hot weather, becomes broken and discordant, 

 and then particularly irritating to those who suffer from the 

 excessive heat. 



Kbs. Indian measure of distance, equivalent to two English 

 miles. 



Kowa (Tcrminalia arjuna). A fine forest tree, nearly always 

 found on river banks; furnishing a dark-brown extremely 

 hard wood. Has a very smooth trunk and whitish bark, with 

 numerous smoothed knobs and gnarls : see the tree under 

 which tiger is lying in the illustration "At Home." 



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