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were shot, often producing incurable lameness.* 

 Wood jungles are also dangerous to ride fast 

 through, owing to the number of drains and 

 hollow places in them, and the quantity of 

 crooked prickles on many of the plants, which 

 are very apt to pull riders off their horses, and 

 in going through them and other thick covers, 

 there is risk of meeting with tigers, leopards, 

 and buffaloes. 



* Prickles, stumps of small trees, splinters of wood, and 

 stalks of grain, are frequently running into the feet of the 

 natives, who seldom wear shoes, as also into the feet of 

 horses and elephants, which induced me to make it a constant 

 practice of carrying with me, on sporting excursions, a pair 

 of pliers, which I found so very useful, that I recommend 

 all sportsmen in India to do the same. 



