THE BANTING. 



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I should probably have had much better sport, for when this 

 is done the native sportsmen kill vast quantities of all kinds 

 of game. Their mode of proceeding is as follows : They 

 surround with ropes a large portion of ground including 

 several clumps of forest trees and jungle. The deer and 

 banting take shelter in these and are beaten out. The 

 deer will not face the rope and numbers are cut down by 



the horsemen. They never attempt to attack a bull banting, 

 but the cows are sometimes killed in the melee. 



The Banting (Bos. sondaicus), somewhat like our Indian 

 bison only not so large and with smaller horns, is plentiful ; 

 the bulls are particularly fierce and dangerous. I had not 

 a chance of coming across one, but have heard them close by 



