CHAPTEE VII. 



Antelope-driving in Grain-fields Coolen Two Antelope at a shot The 

 "Kore" Alligators Unpleasant Bathing Companions Antelope near 

 Dhollera Four Bucks shot Long shot at a "Wolf Buck eaten by Wolves 

 A Game-preserver corrected Spearing a Snake Snake and Frog 

 Shooting in Dhundooka White Buck shot Wolf ditto More misguided 

 Game-preservers. 



I WAS joined in camp by an officer of a regiment stationed at 

 the Cape, who had come to India on a visit to his brother. 

 He was a light-hearted pleasant man, ardently devoted to the 

 chase in all its branches ; sang a good song, and smoked a goodly 

 allowance of strong tobacco. Thrown as I was, at that time, 

 greatly on my own society, my companion was doubly welcome, 

 and my shikarees and horses were at all times at his disposal. 

 On coming in from his first day's shooting he somewhat 

 startled us by the announcement that he had shot several 

 rams. We requested an explanation, and he then told us 

 that at the Cape the males of all antelope were styled " rams," 

 and he had imported the term to India. Perhaps he was right ; 

 antelopes are more goats than deer, and, I believe, horn-shed- 

 ding deer are unknown at the Cape. At the time my friend 

 joined me, the crops of millet were still standing, and the 

 Saiseen antelope and chinkara, or gazelles, lay up, during the 

 heat of the day, in the high grain. We used to beat these 

 fields with a party of men on horseback, all our grooms and 

 followers being mounted on every available horse or pony. 

 The grain stood eight and ten feet high, and men on foot could 



