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We had gone out one morning to shoot partridges and 

 jungle-fowl near the camp, and were accompanied by a num- 

 ber of dogs of various kinds. Passing through some bushes, 

 I heard a terrier barking angrily, and, rushing in, I found her 

 facing a large cobra da capello, which was coiled with head 

 erect and hood extended, by the side of a rat which it had 

 just killed. Hearing the terrier bark, the other dogs ran in 

 from all sides, and in another moment the whole were worry- 

 ing the deadly reptile. Catching up a stick, I beat off the 

 dogs, and then shot the snake. The dogs seemed none the 

 worse, but I was certain that some of them must have been 

 bitten. About twenty minutes afterwards we returned to the 

 tent, where a dog was presently seized with convulsions, and 

 fell apparently in great agony. His mouth and tongue be- 

 came perfectly black from the virulence of the poison, and he 

 was put out of his misery by a pistol-shot. Another dog was 

 similarly struck down. By this time we had got out some 

 spirits of ammonia, which we administered, but without effect, 

 and this dog also died. A third was then attacked, but it 

 had probably been bitten last, and the poison of the snake 

 being partially exhausted, we managed to keep the dog alive 

 till sunset, when it died. We were much grieved by the 

 death of our faithful companions. 



Leaving Colonel Buckle at this camp, Major Bonnor re- 

 turned with me towards the Euttun Mall Hill, a fine wooded 

 mountain in the south-west corner of my district. On the 

 way we passed through a very wild and heavily-timbered 

 country. The valley along which we marched was flat and 

 sandy, but in many parts our line of route was flanked by 

 hills formed of huge detached boulders of gray granite, piled 

 over each other to the height of 200 feet ; they had ap- 

 parently been left by glaciers. On either side of the narrow 



