CONTENTS. xi 



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a "Dug-out" The Spotted Deer An Interview with a Tiger The 

 Monkey's Leap Immense Herd of Deer A Famous Tiger A Suc- 

 cessful Beat A Midnight Intruder The Man-eater of Pouhri 

 Ghostly Legend Coursing the Sambar Native Dogs The Wild Dog 

 Bunjara Dogs The Black Bear A Family Charge Bear Shooting 

 Large Python 314 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE SAL FOEEST. 



Head Streams of the Narbada The Mandla Plateau A Prairie Country 

 Character of the Uplands Scenery Climate Scanty Population 

 Gonds Bygas Their retired Habits Poisoned Arrows Courage 

 of the Bygas Patriarchial Institutions A singular Eace The Byga 

 Medicine Man Tiger Charming A pleasant Custom Byga Seers 

 Eeligious Sentiments Destruction of Sal Trees The Dammer Eesin 

 Traffic of the Bygas Character of the Sal Forests Forest Products 

 Lac Dye Tusser Silk A Grazing Country Value of Cattle 

 Prospects of the Country Its Eesources Causes of Backwardness 

 Wanting Population Distance of Markets Malaria Advantages of 

 the Tract for Settlers European Colonisation Field for Enterprise 

 A Missionary Attempt Land Jobbing Prospects of Missions 

 Wild Animals The Eed Deer Its Habits Variety of Game A 

 Christmas Party Beating with Elephants A Tiger Shot Flying 

 The Halon Valley A Mendicant killed by a Tiger Stalking the Eed 

 Deer Kill a Stag A Eun at a Hind A Wild Elephant Singular 

 Freak Eange of Wild Elephants Tigers Eoaring at Night A 

 Bemarkable Serenade Large Herds of Eed Deer The Wild Buffalo 355 



CHAPTER X. 



AN EXPLOEATION IN THE FAE EAST. 



Commanding Promontory The Source of the Narbada Sivite Legends 

 Fine View A Long Exploration The Wild Buffalo Its Eange 

 and Habits Criminal Trespass The Police called in We slay the 

 Invader Toughness of the Buffalo Size of his Horns A Voyage 

 down the Mahanadi The Country of the Khonds More Buffaloes 

 A Feverish Eegion Buffalo Hunting on Horseback A Vicious Cow 

 Upset by a Bull " Tinker " to the Eescue A Curious Sentinel 

 Treed by Buffaloes The Enemy retires Danger of Buffalo Shooting 

 A Cumbrous Trophy March for the Elephant Country A Decayed 



