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in appearance. There was, however, one notable 

 difference ; both, especially the dog, threw their 

 tongue when hunting, and both had some little 

 scenting powers. 



It w^as not till the third time I had them out that 

 we at last got blood. Three of us went out to the 

 scene of my early discomfiture with the two jackals. 

 In order to give them confidence I let all the hounds 

 run together. The first hill w^as blank, but the 

 second, on being beaten, produced a jack, who went 

 straight away for the first hill, some quarter of a mile 

 off. Away went the hounds, and away we went, 

 my companion coming to grief over a stone wall. 

 Just as I thought the jack was going to gain the hill, 

 the little bitch pinned him by the leg and rolled him 

 over. All the others then joined in, and I rode up 

 and put an end to his struggles with a hog- spear. A 

 jackal has no turn of speed which makes him interest- 

 ing from a coursing point of view, but I was anxious 

 to blood the hounds. A jackal will not even run well 

 unless he gets a good start, but they generally show 

 fight. On this occasion it was obvious that the 

 English dogs were unwilling to come to close quarters, 

 as, though they were far faster, they allowed one of 

 the others to begin. A few days afterwards they 

 killed another, but later in the day I happened to get 

 among bad ground just as they closed with a jackal. 

 Missing my encouragement, they let it go. Yet, 

 shortly afterwards, they were all equal to tackling a 

 jackal single-handed. 



It would not be of interest if I were merely to 

 reproduce such entries from my diary as the 

 followinof : — 



'* Several good courses. Killed two hares, one 



