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City An unfortunate Seizure Retire to Laafagarh A Hospitable 

 Chief The Bygas again A Primitive Pipe An Amazing Spectacle 

 The Elephant God Life at Laafagarh The Doctor discomfited 

 Jungle Delicacies The Thakur's Yarns A Tiger Shot with an 

 Arrow An Elephant Done to Death A " Loathly Worm " Wild 

 Animals on the Hill An irksome Prison Make another Start A 

 splendid Game Country A Herd of Elephants A Solitary Tusker 

 Almost an Adventure A Villainous Termination Explore the 

 Country Bhumia Trackers Fate of a Herd of Elephants A Vast 

 Sal Forest The Way lost Beat out a Bhumia Habits of the Bhu- 

 mias Aspect of the Country A Primitive Measure of Distance 

 Haunts of the Buffaloes Capture of wild Elephants Coal Mea- 

 sures Prospects of the Country The Plateau of Amarkantak A 

 Terrible March End of the Exploration Effects of Exposure 

 The Forest Question Utility of Forests Prospects of the Forests 

 Central India as a Field for Sport Where to go Outfit Guns and 



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APPENDICES. 



Appendix A. Note on the Diseases of Elephants, and the Treatment of 

 the Animal in Captivity B. Rules for the Sale and Lease of Waste 

 Lands in the Central Provinces C. Useful Trees of the Forests of 

 Central India D. Vocabulary of Local Terms E. Hints on the 

 Preservation of Natural History Specimens . . . . .451 



