DHOON SHOOTING. 99 



with blank days. Elephant, however, were not so 

 numerous as might have been expected from the 

 likely appearance of the forest, having been driven 

 into the more remote parts by the periodical burn- 

 ing of the Dhoon grass, which takes place in 

 January and February. Notwithstanding we ex- 

 plored all the most f ivourable haunts, we only twice 

 came across them ; once near Jobrawallah, on the 

 banks of the Sooswa river, and again in the San- 

 kote Forest when on both occasions we killed. We 

 also had some excellent tiger-shooting in different 

 parts of the Dhoon and amongst the Sewalic Hills, 

 but as these hunts afforded no incidents out of the 

 common, I shall not enter into any description of 

 them. 



My companion, Fred, who was quite a ladies' 

 man, and fond of what on the Hills is termed 

 " peacocking," or paying morning visits and dis- 

 cussing the weather, had a most extensive female 

 acquaintance, and he and sundry others of his 

 kidney managed to get up an impromptu pic-nic 

 to the Dripping Well of Sansa-Dharna, which was 

 attended by all the reigning spinsters and grass- 

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