CHAPTER XI 



BLACKBUCK HUNTING 



THE blackbuck is common enough in some 

 parts of India. It is as abundant there 

 as the roe-deer is with us. 



They are most graceful animals, with glisten- 

 ing black coats, which, however, are quite 

 white on the belly. Their horns are like 

 corkscrews. The animals are usually found in 

 herds of from ten to twenty. Very fine old 

 bucks sometimes go singly. 



We hunted them in the neighbourhood 

 of Jaipur and Hyderabad. Round Jaipur 

 stretches a broad, undulating plain covered 

 with dry grass and thorn bushes. It is the 

 pig-sticking country. 



We motored along a good road out of the 

 raspberry-coloured city, and very soon reached 

 our goal. Here we mounted a native ox-cart 

 in which two fleet little zebus, bullocks, were 



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