CONTENTS. XV 



The Holoya Caste— The Native Beer of Mysore — Invest in a Donkey — The Beat 

 — Shoot the Leopards — The Panther's Cunning Ruse — A Sudden Eviction— Shoot 

 the Panther — A Good Bag before Breakfast — Government Reward for Shooting 

 Panthers and Leopards — Circumventing Cunning Panthers — Our Ears Deceive us 

 — My Last Meeting with a Panther — His Strange Behaviour — ^The Interview Ter- 

 minates Unsatisfactorily, ........ 352 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



THE INDIAN BLACK BEAR {Un^VS LABIATUS). 



Description of— Habits and Disposition— She-Bears Carrying their Cubs — Wounded 

 Bears Attacking Each Other — Food — Bears Drinking Henda — Eating Flesh — 

 Danger of Meeting Bears — Modes of Hunting Bears — A Hard but Successful Day 

 — Bag Four Bears — Jungle-Surgery — Bears at Sakrapatam — The lyenkerry Lake 

 — Felonious Bears — Execute Two out of Five — Make a Further Example of Two 

 More — Boxer and Rosie — Shoot a Bear before a Large Assembly — Native Belief 

 Regarding Bears Carrying off Women — Killing Bears with Dogs and a Knife. . 365 



CHAPTEE XXVIL 



DOGS FOR INDIAN HUNTING. 



Jackal-Hunting with Fox-Hounds — Greyhounds — Fox and Hare Coursing — A Foot- 

 Pack in Dacca — Dogs for Hunting Formidable Game — Sir Samuel Baker's Sport 

 in Ceylon — Bull-Dogs for Hunting Bears, Bison, Buffaloes, &c. — Constitution of 

 a Pack — Incidents in Large-Game Hunting with Dogs — My First Attempt — The 

 Pack Seize a Bear — Another Bear-Hunt— Obliged to Shoot the Bear — Damage 

 Sustained by the Pack — A Bison-Hunt — Bill Sykes — Motto for Seizers — The 

 Dogs are almost Choked — The Pack Seize a Young Elephant — A Commemoration 

 Dinncr^Bill Sykes Distinguishes Himself Single-Handed — Fight with a Panther 

 — Objection to Spiked Collars for Hunting-Dogs. .... .378 



