CHAPTEK III. 



Kolapoor Fox and Jackal Coursing A Broken Collar-bone A Snake Eoyal 

 Sportsman Excursion with Langton Treasure Escort Surgery A 

 Native Hunter Military Sporting Phoonda Ghaut Shaik Adam : his 

 Gun Fever A Cheerless Vigil Stuffed Bear Practical Joking Fish- 

 shooting Mombait Jungles A Bear shot Conjugal Affection Bear's 

 Grease Bison seen Domestic Cow shot Embark for Guzerat. 



THE country around Kolapoor in the Deccan is not very good 

 for sporting. There are no large jungles within two or three 

 marches, and, owing to the rocky nature of the ground, even 

 the uncultivated districts are but thinly wooded, giving no 

 covert to large game of any sort, with perhaps the exception 

 of a few panthers ; and these can hide so easily among rocks, 

 or in the holes of porcupines, that they are seldom to be met 

 with. 



At the time I write of, the present cantonment was not 

 established, and the military force which, after the campaign 

 in the southern Mahratta country of 1844-45, was considerable 

 had been located to the south of the town, on the ground slop- 

 ing to a large lake. The houses of the officers were scattered 

 on spurs of land jutting down among the rice-fields from the 

 higher ground. Each regiment had of course its own lines 

 assigned ; but, as the force was reduced on the pacification of 

 the country, many of the bungalows, being left untenanted, fell 

 into decay, and on our arrival only a few were occupied, and 

 our officers were spread over a large area with most unmilitary 

 irregularity. The garrison consisted of two native infantry 

 regiments and a horse battery of European artillery. 



