CHAPTER II. 



WOLVES— HUNTING IN CONCERT— MODE OF ATTACK— THEIR PERSEVERANCE— 

 SELDOM ATTACK HUMAN BEINGS— JOIN GREYHOUNDS IN CHASE— SUPER- 

 STITION AS TO THEIR BLOOD— WILD DOGS— GREAT POACHERS — HUNTING 

 IN PACKS — ATTACKS ON THE SAMBUR — MUNGOOSE AND COBRA — MODE 

 OF ATTACKING THE COBRA— ITS RAPID MOVEMENTS CAUSE OF SAFETY- 

 PROTECTION FROM SNAKES WHEN OUT SHOOTING — PIG-STICKING — THE 

 "DEAL-TABLE" HUNT AT AHMED NUGGER— MY FIRST SPEAR— TWO METHODS 

 OF TIG-STICKING— A B3LD BOAR— SUPERIORITY OF THE ARAB HORSE— 

 A LONG RIDE— THE HAPPY VALLEY — SMALL GAME SHOOTING. 



WOLVES. 



often came across wolves when out after antelope, 

 and on other occasions. They are generally seen in 

 small packs of four or five, but at times in greater 

 numbers. It is wonderful how they work in concert ; on one 

 occasion when' returning with a friend from a trip to the Caves 

 of Ellora, we saw a herd of antelope near a range of low rocky 

 hills, and as there was a dry nullah or watercourse giving an 

 easy approach, we decided on stalking them. While creeping 

 up the nullah we noticed two animals coming across the plains 

 on our left ; at first I took them for leopards, but as they came 

 nearer I saw they were wolves, and when they were about 

 five hundred yards from the antelope they quietly laid down. 

 After about ten minutes or so, the smaller of the two got up 

 and trotted off to the rocky hills, and suddenly appeared on 



