CHAPTEE VIII. 



THE HIGHER NARBADA. 



Jubbulpur Transformed Effects of the Railway along the Narbada A Station 

 Shikaii The Panther and Leopard Dangers of Panther Hunting A 

 Man-eating Panther Curious Legend Cunning of Panthers A Deter- 

 mined Charge Baits for the Panther A Hot- weather Excursion Dance 

 of the Peacocks Deer Shooting from a " Dug-out " The Spotted Deer 

 An Interview with a Tiger The Monkeys' Leap Immense Herd of 

 Deer A Famous Tiger A Successful Beat A Midnight Intruder The 

 Man-eater of Pouhri Ghostly Legend Coursing the Sambar Native 

 Dogs The Wild Dog Banjara Dogs The Black Bear A Family Charge- 

 Bear Shooting Large Python. 



JuBBULPtJR is now rather an important place, being the 

 point of junction of the two lines of railway which between 

 them connect the political with the commercial capital of 

 India, Calcutta with Bombay, and over which pass all the pas- 

 sengers, and much of the goods, in transit between England 

 and Upper India. At the time of which I write it was a 

 small civil and military station, of which few who had not 

 been there knew anything, except that it was situated some- 

 where in the wilds of Central India. I remember when we 

 first got our orders to march there from Upper India no one 

 could give us a route to it. It was trooped from Madras at 

 that time, and so of course the Bengal authorities could not 

 be expected to know anything about it. We found it the 

 pleasantest of Indian stations ; situated in a green hollow 

 among low rocky granite hills always covered with verdure ; 

 with tidy hard roads and plenty of greensward about them ; 



