viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



A MYSORE VILLAGE. 



The Village of Morlay — Advantages of Neighbourhood for Elephant-Catching — At- 

 tractions to the Sportsman — The Villagers — Their Tenure of Lands — Experience 

 in Hunting — Netting Game — Cruelty of the Morlayites to an Elephant — Their 

 Houses — Food — Clothing — Temperance — Women — Infidelity amongst — Caste 

 Rules on the Subject — Matrimony in Morlay — The Village Headman — Training 

 the Murluyitea — My Trackers — Remarks on Native Shikiiries. . . .19 



CHAPTEK V. 



THE BILLIGA-RUNGDN HILLS. 



Earthen Walls — Morlay HaU — HonhoUay River-View — Irrigation — Incursions of 

 Wild Animals into Cultivation — The Ramasamoodrum Lake — Method of Taking 

 Fish — Sluices — A Native Drowned — Means Used to Recover his Body — The 

 Billiga-rungun Hills — Forest and Vegetation — A Deserted Village — Probable 

 Reasons of Abandonment of Jungle Villages — A Noted Bull Bison — Shoot Him 

 — Lake on the HiUs — Hamlets of Yelsariga and Poonjoor — Bommay Gouda — 

 The Koombappan Goody Temple — Character of the God — Fate of the Last 

 Priest — Ritual Observed — Young Married Women's Prayers — Religion of Natives 

 — Propitiating Koombaj^jpah — The Holey Doings of a Holy Man. . . 32 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE ASIxVTIO WILD ELEPHANT (ELEPIIAS INDICUS). 



Distribution of the Asiatic Elephant — Habits of Wild Elephants — Numerical Extent 

 of Herds — A Female always the Leader of a Herd — The Elephant-Fly — Elephant- 

 Calves — Elephants Swimming — Rogue Elephants — The Mandla Elephant — 

 Night Scene at the Ilonganoor Lake • — Depredations of Elephants less Serious 

 tlian Usually Supposed — Height of Elephants — Measurement of Foot— African 

 Elcpliants — Age Attained 1)y Elephants — Where do Elephants Die?' — Native 

 Beliefs — Murrain amongst Elephants — Period of Gestation — "Must" Elephants 

 — Female "Must" Elephants — Means of Telling Age of Elephants — Age at 

 which Females Breed — Two Calves at a Birth — Height and Weight of Calves at 

 Birth — The Female Elephant's Aflection for her Young — Size of Indian Ele- 

 phants' Tusks — Consideration of the Uses of their Tusks to Elephants — Absence 

 of Tusks in Ceylon Elephants — Muckmis — Guneshes — Female Elephants' Tushes 

 — Paces and Speed of Elephants— Inability to Leap. . . . .48 



