STALKING ANTELOPE WITH PONY. 



CHAPTER I. 

 ANTELOPE SHOOTING. 



ANTELOPES— DIFFERENT SPECIES— THEIR HABITS, ETC. — MODE OF APPROACHING 

 ANTELOPES— SPEARING ANTELOPES— COURSING THE FAWNS— COURSING 

 THE SWEET SCENTED FOX— TAKING THE BLACK BUCK WITH THE CHEETA 

 — THE MOUNTAIN ANTELOPE — IS IT A DISTINCT SPECIES — THE INDIAN 

 BUSTARD— BEST MODE OF STALKING THEM. 



v earliest introduction to big game shooting was 

 at Kulladghee in the Bombay Presidency in 

 1839-40; my regiment, the 21st M.N. I., having 

 been sent there to take the place of one which had gone 

 to the front in the first Afghan Campaign. In those days 

 antelopes were very numerous, but very wild and difficult 

 to approach. There were two species — (1) the antelope of 

 the plains, (Antilope cervicapra = bezoartica), the male of 

 which is known to sportsmen as the black buck, very grace- 

 ful in its movements as it bounds over the open ground, 

 and whose handsome head and horns are much prized as 

 trophies. 



