CHAPTER V. 



Guzerat Game The Revenue Survey "The Hunt" Dongurwah Meet 

 Disputed Spear Finishing off a Boar on foot A Bloody Draught The 

 Race not always to the Swift A Sell for a Boaster Boar dropped with a 

 single Spear Thorns in Horse's Legs : Treatment A Day's Shooting at 

 Dongurwah Hunt Meet at Vinjool Three Hogs slain Land Tortoises 

 Chinkara-shooting Three Bucks shot All Smoke Sporting Attendant. 



THE district of Guzerat is the best in the Bombay Presidency 

 for game of all kinds ; and the town of Ahmedabad, directly 

 connected as it is by rail with the Presidency, is a most con- 

 venient starting-point. 



In addition to the British Civil Station, there is a military 

 cantonment, and the latter has a good racecourse, where there 

 is an annual meeting, as well as sky races, generally got up 

 during the monsoon. Game of many kinds abounds within 

 easy distances; and in most parts of the country, antelope, 

 chinkara, and nylghae, are to be found. 



The cold season, commencing in November, brings in duck, 

 quail, and snipe ; and, as soon as the rain crops are off the 

 ground, good hog-hunting can be got in many places. The 

 country is for the most part very fertile, so much so that Guzerat 

 is fairly styled the Garden of Western India. From a few 

 miles south of Baroda, and as far as Ahmedabad, the line of 

 railway passes through a succession of highly-cultivated fields 

 for upwards of eighty miles. These fields are generally fenced 

 with high cactus hedges, covered with flowering creepers, and 

 the whole is richly wooded with noble trees, the larger pro- 



