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in which the Nawabs joined us, we all soon found our- 

 selves in the arms of Morpheus. 



The morning of the 13th saw us all up and dressed 

 by five o'clock, and after a substantial chota hazree we 

 mounted our horses and ordered the coolies and ele- 

 phants to move ahead. 



Our plan for the day was to beat crops and grass in 

 the forenoon, and finish with the patiale in the after- 

 noon. 



Some light grass with babool trees was first tried, and 

 we had scarcely gone in when an old boar, who was 

 sunning himself by the side of a bush, got up and 

 stretched himself rather dazed, I should say, at the sight 

 before him. Half-a-dozen riders were soon after him. 

 Lawrie Johnstone getting first spear. The Sultan Saheb 

 tried to hustle between Johnstone and the pig, and was 

 treated, I believe, to some rather unparliamentary lan- 

 guage. 



While this pig was being killed, two more were put 

 up from some patches of grass : Lord William Beresford 

 securing the spear of one and the Sultan Saheb the 

 other ; the first of these two boars was the biggest, the 

 other two being rather smallish ones. Some more grass 

 was beaten after this, but with the exception of an old 

 sow with a lot of butchas nothing more was seen. The 

 bit of country we next came to looked rather disap- 

 pointing ; for, with the exception of some small bushes 

 here and there and a few patches of wheat, there was 

 nothing like any heavy cover to be seen. But our dis- 



