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camp. When they arrived at the spot, they found a couple 

 of wolves feasting on the deer, and in nowise deterred by 

 the flag which I had set up. Wolves are very bold at times, 

 and will attack and carry off lambs and kids from the flocks 

 in broad daylight. 



At a village named Gaumf, a few miles north-west 

 of Dhollera, we had good antelope-shooting. They seemed 

 to do considerable damage in the wheat-fields ; but owing 

 to apathy, or to the religious prejudices of devout Hindoos, 

 they were seldom molested by the natives. On the contrary, 

 the tendencies of some of the inhabitants were strongly 

 in favour of the most stringent game-laws. One of my 

 friends went out one morning after deer, and, after some 

 trouble, had succeeded in working his shooting-cart towards 

 a herd, when he saw a horseman wildly careering towards 

 the game, shouting frantically, and waving a white cloth. 

 The herd was thoroughly startled, and fled over the plain, 

 and the sportsman referred to, who was a man of a gentle 

 disposition and well-regulated mind, unwilling to suppose 

 that he would be wantonly annoyed, went in quest of more 

 game. A second time he was about to approach a herd of 

 deer which he had espied on the plain, when the horseman 

 again appeared, and, wheeling his horse in giddy circles, 

 again scattered the deer. A third time my friend went on 

 after a fresh herd, when it was suggested to him by some of 

 his attendants that the lively horseman had been told off for 

 the duty of scaring the deer by the Bunneah, or trading 

 community, by whom the taking of animal life is regarded as 

 a deadly sin. He therefore watched his movements, having 

 previously directed his own groom, with his trusty Arab, to 

 keep near the shooting-cart. A herd of deer now came in 

 sight, and seeing that the persecutor was again in attend- 



