2 2 MODE OF ATTACK. 



and its fawn, and the wolf still following and watching them. 

 The late Mr. B., of the Madras Civil Service, a noted sports- 

 man and a famous shot, told me that on one occasion he was 

 riding through some low jungle when he heard a peculiar 

 thumping noise a little way off the road, and dismounting he 

 stole into the jungle, taking his rifle with him ; on arriving 

 at an open space he saw a sambur hind with a small calf 

 standing in the middle of it looking intently at a big bush, out 

 of which rushed a large wolf and made a dash at the calf; he 

 was instantly knocked head over heels by the hind, and at 

 once retreated into the bush ; again and again he sallied 

 forth only to be knocked over again and again by the brave 

 old hind ; still he persevered until at last B., seeing that the 

 deer was becoming exhausted, shot the brute the next time 

 it came out. 



Wolves used occasionally to visit our cantonment at 

 night and many a dhobie's (washerman's) donkey, left out to 

 forage for itself in the officer's gardens, fell a victim to these 

 hungry marauders. One night they attacked a charger 

 belonging to our adjutant and injured the poor animal so 

 severely before it was rescued, that it had to be shot. It is 

 said that native children have been carried off by wolves, but 

 as a rule they do not attack human beings. I once came 

 unexpectedly close upon four wolves; they showed their teeth 

 and looked uncommonly vicious, but turned tail before I could 

 get a fair shot at them. That they are extremely cunning as 

 well as sagacious, and up to all kinds of dodges to circumvent 

 their prey, there cannot be a doubt. Hawkeye (my brother, 

 the late Gen. Richard Hamilton, C.B.), in his book on Indian 

 Game, says : — 



" Travelling along the road to the Bellarungums, I came 



