36 INDIAN METHOD OF CATCHING DEER. 



the ground ; they drive the covers towards the 

 line, and the deer are caught by their necks. 



Sometimes they set nooses in the path-ways to 

 catch them by the legs. Two strong ropes with 

 loops made at the time of twisting the cord, and 

 lined with a bit of horn on the inside to make 

 them slip easily, are fastened to branches of trees, 

 if there are any near enough ; if not, to pegs 

 firmly fixed in the ground. To these cords a 

 small twine or silk thread is fixed, which is passed 

 across the path-way, and is suspended by two 

 forked sticks, about the height of the breast of a 

 deer. When the deer run against this line, it 

 draws together the nooses, at the same time 

 elevating them a little, which, being placed imme- 

 diately under the twine, catches them by the legs. 

 The cord on the ground is kept from view by 

 being covered with dry or green leaves. 



When deer are known to destroy gram, a kind 

 of vetch of which they are very fond, they erect 

 platforms as before mentioned, which seldom have 

 houses on them, but simply a place to sit on, secure 

 from the tigers, where they wait to shoot them 

 when they come to feed at night. Sometimes the 



