CONTENTS. 



PAOB 



Curious Legend — Cunning of Panthers — A Determined 

 Charge — -Baits for the Panther — A Hot-Weather Excursion 

 — Dance of the Peacocks — Deer Shooting from a " Dug- 

 out" — The Spotted Deer — An Interview with a Tiger — 

 The Monkeys' Leap — Immense Herd of Deer — A Eamous 

 Tiger — A Successful Beat— A Midnight Intruder — The 

 Man-eater of Pouhri — Ghostly Legend — Coursing the Sam- 

 bar — Native Dogs — The Wild Dog — Banjiira Dogs — The 

 Black Bear — A Family Charge — Bear Shooting — Large 

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CHAPTER IX. 



THE SAL FOREST. 



Head Streams of the Narbada — The Mandla Plateau — A Prairie 

 Country — Character of the Uplands — Scenery — Climate — 

 Scanty Population — Gouds — Bygas — Their Retired Habits 

 — Poisoned Arrows — Courage of the Bygas — Patriarchal 

 Institutions — A Singular Race — The Byga Medicine Man 

 — Tiger Charming — A Pleasant Custom — Bygii Seers — 

 Religious Sentiments — Destruction of Sal Trees — The 

 Dammar Resin — Traffic of the Bygiis — Character of the 

 Sal Forests — Forest Products — Lac Dye — Tasser Silk — 

 A Grazing Country — Value of Cattle — Prospects of the 

 Country — Its Resources — Causes of Backwardness — Want- 

 ing Population — Distance of Markets — Malaria — Advan- 

 tages of the Tract for Settlers — European Colonisation — 

 Field for Enterprise — A INIissionary Attemj)t — Land 

 •lobbiug — Prospects of Missions — Wild Animals — The Red 

 Deer — Its Habits — Variety of Game — A Christmas Party 

 — Beating with Elephants — A Tiger Sliot Flying — The 

 Halon Valley — A Mendicant killed by a Tiger — Stalking 

 the Red Deer— Kill a Stag— A Run at a Hind— A Wild 

 Elephant — Singular Freak — Range of AV^ild Elephants — 

 Tigers Roaring at Night — A Remarkable Serenade — Large 

 Herds of Red Deer— The Wild Bufralo . . . . 3G9 



