134 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



have killed him outright, had it not been for a bull 

 mastiff which was out with his master and came to 

 the rescue, attacking the infuriated buffalo and in 

 other ways diverting his attention from the insensible 

 doctor. Fortunately Chalmers's syce had seen the 

 occurrence. He hurried into the station and gave 

 intelligence of his employer's death as he supposed. 

 Some half-a-dozen Europeans officers, civilians and 

 indigo planters were on their horses in a few 

 moments and galloped off to the scene of action, 

 where they found the bull and dog still fighting, 

 and the disabled sportsman lying in a pool of blood. 

 The dangerous brute happily was soon dispatched 

 and Chalmers was carried home and eventually 

 recovered to tell the tale of his miraculous escape. 

 When once near Nowgong the people asked me 

 to kill a bull for them, as he had taken possession 

 of a herd of cows, and wouldn't allow them to come 

 home at night. So accompanied by one man I 

 walked out about three miles to a marshy plain 

 where the bull was pointed out to me. I had 

 ordered my elephant to follow. She had been taken 

 out to bring her " charah " in, for I did not propose 

 going out hunting that day, having some work to 

 attend to, as well as expecting some native con- 

 tractors to be at my tent about 11 a.m. Seeing no 

 signs of my " hattie," and a convenient white ant- 

 hill within easy shot of the buffalo, bidding my man 

 climb a small tree and not to descend unless I told 

 him, I crawled up until I got behind the hillock. 

 Using its crest as a support, I fired two shots, and 

 the bull fell down apparently dead. As I was loading 

 I heard hasty steps coming towards me. It was the 



