CHAPTEE X. 



Indore Kautcote Jungles Tiger wounded Large Tiger seen Cry of Tigers 

 when charging Bad Mahouts Night Watching for Tigers Cheetul 

 shot Herd of Sambur A Bear's Throne Murrel shot Tiger missed 

 Wild Dogs Craving of Deer for Salt Shooting with a High Tra- 

 jectory Antelope-shooting at Indore Jowra Nawaub Cheetah Hunt 

 Tame Buck (?) shot A Buck in the Grass A Long Shot March to 

 Bundelcund Thunder-storm Cholera Snipe-shooting Jansi Duttiah 

 The Chiefs Preserve Four Nylghae shot Wild Pig shot Stalking 

 Antelopes Right and Left Shot at Chinkara Cheetah's Tactics Oorae 

 Gipsy Kettle Return March Blue Bull shot Bustard shot. 



IN the hot season of 1856 I marched from Ahmedabad to 

 Indore in Malwa. I had always heard of this part of Central 

 India as a good sporting country, but I arrived too late in the 

 year to be able to organise an expedition, even had I been able 

 to get the necessary leave of absence. The country was all 

 new to me, and I knew that the information of the natives 

 around the cantonment was hardly to be relied on. Game 

 there was in plenty within sixty miles ; but without good 

 shikarees little could be done by a stranger. 



The Mhow cantonment was distant only fourteen miles, 

 and some few of the officers employed shikarees ; but they 

 were only to be got to work by high pay and large rewards, 

 and, as a rule, confined their services to the garrison. The 

 Vindyah range of mountains was close to Simrole, twelve 

 miles from Indore, where the table-land of Malwa ceased, and 

 the ground fell away to the valley of the Nerbudda river. 

 The intervening country was very rugged ; covered with hills 



