Jungle By-Ways in India 



each one goes off with a blind rush, but it does not 

 last long or far, and they will be shortly seen to 

 close up and drop into single file in a most auto- 

 matic manner. I watched the does do this as 

 they followed the river bank up stream for some 



Tracks of nilgai. 



distance, and then, swerving across the plain 

 to the east, topped a rise and disappeared. 



The villager wished me to go after them, but I 

 was obdurate. I had started out on this quest 

 with a kind of feeling that I was going into 

 Windsor Park to shoot one of the deer there. 

 It was not turning out so easy a game as I had 



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