ADVENTURES IN CAMP AND JUNGLE. 71 



rushed forward and secured the horses, while a friendly 

 drummer dragged out the nearly expended major, who had 

 sustained a sharp contusion on the shoulder. On assembling 

 at breakfast, I received the thanks of the regiment for my 

 laudable endeavours to accelerate promotion. 



After the first march we left the main body, and made our 

 way to Broach, where I was stationed for some ten months. 



On the south bank of the Nerbudda, which flows by the 

 town in a stream half-a-mile in width, we got some first-rate 

 quail-shooting. Below the town we found birds in immense 

 numbers in the fields, and higher up we made large bags in 

 the bastard cypress along the bank of the river. They were so 

 numerous that a couple of guns could kill seventy and eighty 

 brace with ease in a few hours, and frequently they rose so 

 fast that we were obliged to cease firing to allow our guns to 

 cool. The natives catch large numbers in traps made of the 

 stalk of the millet, which they shape into a small box and 

 bait with a head of grain, the trap being like a figure-of-4 trap. 

 Numbers also are killed with arrows having a blunt head of 

 hard wood as large as a florin. The natives stalk them as 

 they dust themselves in the cart-ruts, and often kill several 

 at one shot. I am not aware whence these quails come. 

 They appear about the end of November, and are gone again 

 by March. In this respect they are similar to the mass of 

 the wildfowl and snipe, which I suppose are driven down by 

 the cold from the north. Our bag was generally varied by a 

 few brace of gray and painted patridge and hares, and not 

 unfrequently by a civet or large wild cat. 



Further up the Nerbudda, near Nandode, where the river 

 enters the jungles, tigers are found ; but, though I went on 

 two occasions for several days at a time, we were unable to 

 make anything of them, owing to our not knowing the country, 



