io8 WILD LIFE IN NORTH CANARA. 



devoted naturalist, a very mine of in- 

 teresting lore in regard to the ways 

 of bird and beast, fish and reptile; he 

 was also a draughtsman of rare skill, 

 depicting things too perishable for pre- 

 servation, and stereotyping in this way 

 peculiarities of attitude and colouring 

 not easy of " record by other means. 

 In him the sportsman was effaced in 

 favour of the friendly observer of 

 Nature, who sought the haunts of her 

 wild races not for destruction but for 

 acquaintanceship. 



It was his wont to pass many an 

 hour, watching from his concealment, 

 the ways of wild animals. He told 

 me that on one occasion he had seen 

 a string of eight or ten bison walk 

 up in succession to a heavy five-foot 



