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numbers with their axes, aided by their strong tall dogs. 

 The best heads are to be got from these people ; and that 

 figured below, which is a very typical one, was killed 

 either thus or by a tiger. I myself never got a complete 

 head with more than ten points, though I have secured 

 some heavier than the twelve-pointed one figured below. Its 



Horns of Bara Singha Deer. (Scale, one tenth.) 



length is 33^ inches round the curve of each antler, and 

 extreme spread 36 inches. There are few larger in the 

 forests. 



In the rains the wild buffalo wanders in herds all over 

 these Mandla highlands. They mostly disappear, how- 

 ever, when the tame cattle are brought up to graze in 



