INDIAN METHOD OF CATCHING DEER. 35 



tiger, the rest of the family would follow the same 

 business at the same place the next day. 



There are a great variety of deer in Ramghur ; 

 Saumws, a species of elk Nylgaus (Picta 

 antelopes), the common red deer, spotted 

 deer, the common antelopes, deer with four 

 horns, and a very small kind of deer, not larger 

 than the English hare, with long ears, exceedingly 

 active and delicately formed ; they are very com- 

 mon throughout the country ; and other kinds may 

 be occasionally met with. 



Deer are either caught in nets placed as I have 

 already described, or on a smaller scale ; they are 

 also caught in nooses, or are shot from michauns 

 (platforms), or pits, by Shecarries and villagers: 

 to catch them in nooses, a strong line is fastened 

 to trees, and extends across the cover fifty or a 

 hundred yards. At all the openings, or paths, 

 strong nooses of thong, or of the bark of a tree, 

 are suspended to the cord and kept open by a 

 little wooden pin at the top, which, on the least 

 force being applied, readily gives way. They are 

 kept expanded on the sides by bushes, if any are 

 growing near enough, or split sticks inserted into 



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