DESCRIPTION OF A HUNQUAH. 15 



extremity of the reserved cover, where they fixed 

 on a proper place, and set the nets, which extended 

 about a mile, not in continuation, but at intervals. 

 They required four or five elephants and twenty 

 or thirty bullocks to carry them. Each net was 

 about forty feet long, and seven feet high ; the 

 cords being of the size of a man's little finger, 

 lightly twisted, with meshes about eight inches 

 square, made without any knot whatever, simply 

 by twisting the cords into one another, by which 

 they were rendered more elastic, less visible to 

 the animals, and not so cumbersome and heavy, 

 as if made with knots. Sometimes three or four 

 nets were placed in succession touching or over- 

 lapping one another, but more frequently they 

 were intersected by jungle, which was made 

 almost impenetrable by stakes driven down in 

 the midst of it, and thorns twisted between them. 



For the following description of their method 

 of fixing their nets, I am indebted to Captain 

 Williamson's book of Wild Sports, p. 32. " Holes 

 " being dug about a foot deep in the ground, 

 " two small cavities are made in the sides, near 

 " its bottom and opposite to each other. A strong 

 " pin, to the middle of which the rope is fastened, 

 " is then buried in the hole, having each end in 



