xii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE XVL 



INCIDENTS IN ELEPHANT-SHOOTING. 



Camp at Ponjoor— "Want of Rain— Move Camp— A Tiger in a Sh5laga's Hut— Sholaga 

 Trackers — A Troublesome Cough — Find Elephants — Manoeuvre to get a Shot — 

 Kill a Tusker — I Narrowly Escape an Inglorious End — Jungle -Trackers — My 

 Youthful Tracker Gorrava — The Difierence between Hitting and Bagging — Perse- 

 verance — The Kakankote Rogue — His Habits — Kills Two Travellers — Kakankote 

 — The Cubbany River — Forest — Kurrabas — Their Habits, Food, Appearance, 

 Dwellings — Garrow and Chittagong Wild Tribes' Dwellings — Kurrabas' Methods 

 of Catching Wild Animals — The Flying Squirrel — Ethnology of the Kurrabas — 

 Old Poojaree — Jungle Tribes' Fear of Elephants — I Reach Kakankote to Hunt the 

 Rogue — News of Him — Track Him — Heavy Rain — Fire at the Rogue — Wild Ele- 

 phants' Rushes — The RogueEscapes — Melancholy Reflections. . . • 201 



CHAPTEE XVII. 



INCIDENTS IN ELEPHANT-SHOOTING {continued). 



Second Expedition after the Rogue — He Kills a Kurraba — Wound Him — A Chase — 

 Kill Him — How to Make Fire with Two Sticks — Roll the Rogue's Carcass Over — 

 Cut off His Head — Place His Head on View by the Roadside — The Rogue's 

 Impertinent Friend the Muckna — Take Him Down a Peg — My Best Tusker — 

 An Exciting Hunt — Large Tusks — Wound Hmi — The Proverbial Stern-Chase — 

 Encounter Him Again — Further Pursuit — Kill Him — Reflections — Shoot an 

 Elephant in a Pit by Accident — A Sportmg Parson — The Garrow Hills — Narrow 

 Escape from a Tusker — Sir Victor Brooke and Colonel Hamilton's Big Tusker — 

 A Common Elephant - Shooting Story — Elephants' Powers of Getting Over 

 Wounds. .......... 217 



CHAPTEE XVIIL 



THE INDIAN BISON (GAVJEUS GAURUS). 



Distribution in India — Appearance — Height — Size of Horns — Gregarious Nature — 

 Food — Character — Habitat — Subject to Murrain — Indian Cattle Diseases — Bison- 

 Calves — Sounds made by Bison — Flesh — The Bison and Mithun or Gayal of 

 Bengal Compared — Never Brought Alive to England — My Opportunities of Ob- 

 serving Bison — Probable Age Attained by Bison — Solitary Bulls— Their Disposi- 

 tion — They Carry the Best Heads. ....... 243 



