CHAPTEK VIII. 



Shooting at Kaanpore Panther shot Chinkara : five shot Panther missed 

 Hog-hunting at Kaanpore Three successful Runs Young Lion 

 Hunting at Santhul Great Draught of Fishes Robbed of the Honours 

 Porcupines Hunting at Suheej with Bulkley Two good Runs Exciting 

 Hunt of a big Boar. 



PANTHERS were often found in the neighbourhood of Kaan- 

 pore, and several had been shot by Bowles before I joined him 

 there. Most of them had been killed during the hot season, 

 when all crops save small patches of sugar-cane, left for seed, 

 were off the ground. The canes being irrigated to keep them 

 green, the ground in these fields was always cool and damp. 

 The canes gave good shade, and the presence of a panther was 

 generally indicated by his footprints in the moist earth. Left 

 to themselves, the cultivators would have cut the canes on the 

 outside of their fields ; but, in the hope of getting rid of the 

 panthers, they were often willing to cut rides down the middle, 

 of a sufficient breadth to allow of a snap shot at a panther 

 crossing. My friend on these occasions shot with a double 

 smoothbore, with two balls in each barrel ; and, taking up his 

 position at the end of the ride, he would wait for the panthers 

 to be driven across by a line of beaters with drums and 

 tom-toms. 



If the panther was missed, as not unfrequently happened, 

 the beaters retired, and, moving round outside the field, would 

 proceed to drive him back Sometimes a panther would be 

 wounded and claw a beater ; but, on the whole, there were 



