CHAPTER VI. 



Goznepore Grass or "Khor" Hunting. 

 Four Grizzly Old Veterans. 



About the end of December, 1868, I got a letter 

 from Bob Anderson, from Patkabaree, saying that he 

 was coming over next morning with Archie Hills and 

 a couple of Calcutta friends to hunt the country round 

 about Choa and to meet them at Bhola Ghat. 



Next day by ten o'clock I was at the Ghat, but as 

 there was no sign of the party turning up I thought I 

 might as well take a round and see how the country 

 looked. 



Though it was a little too late in the season for grass- 

 hunting, still some of the brown-looking patches looked 

 very tempting. It was not long before I came up to 

 some villagers who were cutting grass, and these in- 

 formed me that they had that very morning disturbed 

 an old boar, who had gone into another patch of grass 

 about a quarter of mile or so away ; and they also told 

 me that the boar they put up was known to them as the 

 beurea or tailless. This was very good khubur ; but by 

 the way, I suppose, of further inducement for us to 

 come up, they added that they had seen another boar 



