BULLET AND SHOT 



adopted this somewhat poaching device, and that 

 was on ground over which a friend in the Gunners 

 had previously shot, and upon which he told me 

 that I should have to employ it in order to obtain 

 sport. 



It was certainly very deadly in my first trip, one 

 October, when in seventeen days' shooting I bagged 

 twenty-four black bucks, one buck chinkara, and 

 two bustard (the bustard being shot with the rifle). 

 When, however, I went over the ground again, 

 some two months later, the antelope would not let 

 a cart approach anywhere near them ; and I had 

 hardly any sport, and what little I obtained was on 

 foot. I believe, however, that this wildness of the 

 game upon the occasion of my second trip, was due, 

 not to their remembrance of my previous use of a 

 cart, but to the alleged fact that a large gang 

 of antelope netters and snarers had, just before my 

 second visit, been harrying the ground and driving 

 the animals about until they were ready to run from 

 anything ; and of course they could see a cart 

 much farther off than they could detect a man. 



The modiis operandi in using a cart is, first, to 

 put in some brushwood or straw, then a thick 

 mattress and some pillows, and to cut two holes, 

 one on each side, in the bamboo matting which 

 forms the roof and sides of the covering, to serve 

 as windows. The cart then goes lumbering along 

 across country in places where antelope are likely 

 to be found ; and it is extraordinary what rough 

 ground and what ticklish nullahs, a bullock-cart, 

 if well driven, can cross without upsetting. 



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