CHAPTEE X. 



AN EXPLORATION IN THE FAR EAST. 



A Commanding Promontory The Source of the Narbadd 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 Maha- 

 nadi The Country of the Khonds More Buffaloes A Feverish Region- 

 Buffalo Hunting on Horseback A Vicious Cow Upset by a Bull 

 " Tinker " to the Rescue A Curious Sentinel Treed by Buffaloes The 

 Enemy Retires Danger of Buffalo Shooting A Cumbrous Trophy March 

 for the Elephant Country A Decayed City An Unfortunate Seizure 

 Retire to Laafagarh A Hospitable Chief The Bygas again A Primitivo 

 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 Villanous Termination Explore the Country 

 Bhtimia Trackers Fate of a Herd of Elephants A vast Sal Forest The 

 Way Lost Beat out a Bhtimia Habits of the Bhumias Aspect of the 

 Country A Primitive Measure of Distance Haunts of the Buffaloes 

 Capture of Wild Elephants Coal Measures 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 Rifles Conclusion. 



The Highlands of Central India may perhaps properly be 

 said to terminate where the steep southern face of the Mykal 

 range, trending away to the north-east, culminates in the 

 high bluff promontory of Amarkantak. Standing here on this 

 prominent point, the very focus and navel of India, the eye 



