MALE AXD FEMALE. 



CHAPTER VI. 



IBEX SHOOTING ON THE NEILGHERRIES, 

 ANNAMULLIES, AND PULNIES. 



EXCURSION TO THE SEVEN PAGODAS — SPORTING TRIP TO DAVAROY-DROOG — 

 MISERABLE SPORT— ATTACKED BY FEVER— MEDICAL BOARD— SENT TO THE 

 HILLS--ARRIVAL AT OOTY — FIRST IMPRESSIONS— FIRST INTRODUCTION TO 

 IBEX— THE OLD SADDLE BACKS— EXCITING STALKS— MAGNIFICENT SCENERY 

 — HABITS OF THE IBEX— ITS ENEMIES — CHARMS AND ATTRACTIONS OF THE 

 PURSUIT OF IBEX— MY FIRST IBEX— TIGER (THE DOG) AND THE WOUNDED 

 IBEX— MALLOCK'S BUNGALOW — MICHAEL'S LUCK — A CLOSE SHAVE — I GO 

 HOME " KOOSH " THE OLD BUCK OF KUDAKARNAL — THE GRAND OLD SADDLE 

 BACK — THE THREE LEGGED BUCK I DID NOT GET. 



n June, 1849, I went to England and did not return 

 to Madras till November, 1852. In the following 

 year I made an excursion to the Seven Pagodas, a 

 gurious sort of place like the Tunbridge Wells rocks mag- 



