CHAPTER XIII 



JACKAL-HUNTING 



HOG-HUNTING is, without doubt, the 

 first and best of Indian sports, but it is 

 not everywhere procurable. In some places 

 the increase of fire-arms has made pig very 

 scarce ; in others, though pig are fairly plentiful, 

 you cannot ride them because the ground is 

 not sufficiently open, or the coverts are too 

 thick ; but almost everywhere you can get some 

 excellent sport with the jackal. The jackal is 

 laroer and stronofer than the E no-fish fox, and 

 is very stout. It takes a great deal of killing, 

 and affords good sport either with a pack of 

 English foxhounds or with what is locally 

 known as a '' bobbery " pack. It is rather the 

 fashion to depreciate Indian jackal-hunting ; 

 but, as a matter of fact, its deficiencies arise 

 rather from want of knowledge and manage- 

 ment on the part of those who undertake it, 



