7o Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



found a rhinoceros I had shot, with the above horn, 

 which from its length was a rarity. The Commissioner 

 sent " peelers " to have the man apprehended, but he 

 bolted across the frontier. The late Major Cock, 

 finding the Assamese so eager to buy the mere 

 stumps which most of the rhinoceros he had shot 

 were adorned with, seeing in Calcutta a lot of 

 African rhinoceros horns for sale, several nearly 

 three feet in length, for a trifling sum, bought the 

 whole lot, and sent them to a tea planter to dispose 

 of, but the Assamese would not credit that they were 

 genuine, so would have none of them. What became 

 of them eventually I do not know, but I often saw 

 them lying about in the tea house in Gowhatty. 

 Sometimes a sportsman slays a cow rhinoceros with 

 a calf. When such happens, by all means send for 

 the nets which every village in Assam possesses 

 for catching wild animals including the immensely 

 powerful wild buffalo and you will have no great 

 difficulty in securing the youngster. In my day 

 Jamrach's agent would give from Ks.1000 to Ks.1200 

 apiece for them. I had two, and was offered Rs.2000 

 for the brace, delivered in Calcutta or Ks.1600, de- 

 livery in Gowhatty, so I chose the latter offer, but 

 discovered afterwards that if I had stuck out, I 

 should have got a good deal more. 



My first experiences of rhinoceros in Assam were at 

 Loqua Ghat, in 1866 or 1867, when shooting with 

 General Sir Charles Eeid. I was unlucky, and failed 

 to bag. But in June, 1867, I determined to visit the 

 dooars, though it was very late in the season, and bets 

 were offered that if I went there, and remained a 

 week or ten days, I should be a dead man, a month 



