18 DESCRIPTION OF A HUNQUAH. 



any animal to remove them. Loop holes are 

 made for shooting through. 



In these places, and sometimes on elephants 

 (but not often, as it requires very well- trained 

 animals to remain quiet at such times), the 

 Rajah and his friends station themselves. 



At the time I was out, they were on platforms 

 and on an elephant to see the sport, and to shoot 

 at the animals which either passed on the outside 

 of the nets, got through them, or leaped over 

 them ; and although it was not right, many were 

 fired at as they approached. 



The night before the sport commenced, the 

 Nagarrah* was beaten at the Rajah's resi- 

 dence, and from ten to twenty thousand people 

 assembled before morning at the spot appointed. 



At day break, about a hundred were sent off to 

 set fire to the sides of the reserved jungle ; and 



* Nagarrah is a large drum, usually made of baked 

 clay, with a skin at each 'end ; they are raised on the high- 

 est trees, and then beaten, and are heard at a considerable 

 distance. 



