394 THE HIGHLANDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. 



the open season, a few only lingering in the most secluded 

 valleys ; and they must then be sought in the less acces- 

 sible jungles' to the south and west. Thither I must carry 

 the reader to introduce him to the animal, as I never was in 

 the Mandla district at the time when the buffaloes are found 

 there. 



