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Index. 



PALMYKAHlLL, 234 



Panthers, 234, 278-292 



Paradox gum, 390 



Pearls, 403 



Peecheemootoo steals my first tiger, 8 



Pheasant, the water, 340 



Pico, the peak of, 374 



Pig, wild, 263, 402, 404 



Pigsticking, 179 ; first experience, 180 ; 

 Rajahmundry, 181 ; a big boar, 182 ; 

 by the river, 183 ; in the river, 184 ; 

 four boars, 185 ; a nasty cropper, 

 185 ; hog shooting, 186 ; a good day, 

 188 ; the chaser chased, 189 ; hog 

 spears, 191 ; a party, 192 ; too fresh 

 a horse, 193 ; through the heart, 

 194 ; a monster porcupine, 195 ; a 

 welcome siesta, 196 ; the best sport 

 in the world, 198 ; a horse killed, 

 199, 206 ; game to the end, 200 ; 

 camp life, 202 ; a disagreeable boar, 

 206 ; a sorry plight, 207 ; in the 

 Burhampooter Churs, 209-219 ; a 

 sow in her lair, 216 ; boar seized by 

 crocodile, 217 ; in Burma, 275 



Pitfalls, catching elephants in, 122 



Poisoned arrows, 315, 330 



Poiumpilly, 223 



Porcupine, 302 ; sea, 405 



Prendergast, Tom, 13, 180, 186, 209 



Purkeer, 230, 234 



Pyoung, see Gaur 



Python, 50 ; tiger killed by, 51 ; fine 

 specimen, 52 



Rock snake, 50, 257, see python 

 Rogue buffalo, a, 130 

 Rutfs, 348 



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SAMBUK, 54, 243 ; a fight between two, 



246 



Samulcottah, 13 

 Sand grouse, 335, 339 

 Sanderson, Mr., 120, 140 

 Sappers and Miners, the, 86 

 Scott, Douglas, 223 

 Scrow deer, 275 

 Sea fishing in the Azores, 372 

 Sea porcupine, 405 

 Secunderabad, 333 

 Seonee, 235 

 Shan dacoits, 406, 407 

 Sheep dressed as men, 235 

 Shikaries, Burmese, 150-164, 261 

 Shillong, 279 



Shoay-Boh, Burmese shikari, 150-164 

 Shoaydeik, 54 



Siam, elephant breeding in, 122 

 Simson, Mr., 133 

 Singie. 236 



Snipe shooting, 336, 339, 347, 393 

 South India, 333-341 ; fishing, 355 

 Spearing bears, 223, 237-240 

 Spearing animals out of boats, 293 

 Spears for pigsticking, 191, 210 

 Spotted deer, 276 

 Syria, sport in, 342-354 



QUAIL, 335 



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R 



RAGAPORE, rendezvous at, 13 



Rajahmundry, 13 ; pigsticking at, 180, 

 181 



Ramasawmy, 16; gets scared, 18 ; dis- 

 appears, 21 ; comes to life again, 22 ; 

 his wife, 23 ; hair blanched by fright, 

 24 



Reid, Gen. Sir Chas., 68-70 



Rhinoceros, 64-67 ; two-horned, 69 ; 

 calf, 70, 81; Burpettah, 71-73; 

 fight with a buffalo, 75 ; asleep, 76 ; 

 pandemonium, 78 ; milk, 80 ; spear- 

 ing, 218, 295 ; shooting, 397 



Rifle, a monster, 93 



TABLE ISLAND LIGHT-HOUSE, 399 



Takin, 275 



Teal, 339, 340 



Teelahs, 91 



Terai, rhinoceros in the/ 65 



Thamin (cervasfrontalis), 256 



Thayetmys, 89 



Theft, punishment for, 170 



Thorn, impaled by a, 329 



Tiger shooting, 1 ; my first tiger, 5 ; 

 stolen, 9 ; a fine tiger, 13 ; a fight, 20 ; 

 an accident, 21 ; Burma, 32 et seq. ; 

 up a tree, 27 ; girl seized by tiger, 

 30 ; shooting on foot, 34-39 ; a nasty 

 place, 36 ; cub killed by Goorkas, 

 39 ; shooting off elephants, 39-46 ; a 

 tiger's larder, 41 ; amaneater, 48-51; 

 girls attacked while bathing, 56-60 ; 

 tracking a wounded tiger, 155 ; pig- 

 sticking stopped by a tiger, 215 ; in 



