Charier II. 



I HAD been out shooting all the morning, and 

 was wending my way back in a leisurely manner, 

 when, about a couple of miles from my quarters, 

 I came across a native, squatting on the river 

 bank, and calmly smoking his hookah (Plate i). 

 The native pipe and apparatus for smoking the 

 common hookah consists of u coooa-nut shell 

 containing water, in which an upright reed, or 

 wooden pipe, ornamented or otherwise, and about 

 twelve inches long, is fixed, to support the tobacco 

 holder and lighted charcoal. The perpendicular 

 tube is grasped by the smoker, who draws the 

 tobacco smoke through the water by means of a 

 second reed or hole in the shell. 



On seeing me with my gun, the native asked 

 me if I would shoot a tiger, which he said was 

 couched in a mulberry field (Mulberry Cultivation : 

 see Appendix) about a mile distant. A little way 

 from the field a whole crowd of natives were 

 assembled. As it happened, I was only armed 

 with an old fowling-piece, a capital weapon for 



