xii HAUNTS AND HOBBIES 



CHAPTER XVI. 



TAGE 



Wild animals — Tigers, leopards, bears, and wolves — Stories of 

 tigers — One enters my camp at night— A devotee and a tiger— 

 Tigers at the native courts — Enormous strength of the tiger — 

 Sad accidents to an English officer— Man-eating tigers — Leopards 

 — Their extreme activity — Story of a tame leopard — The bears — 

 They mostly inhabit the mountains —Two bears prowl round my 

 house and break into the larder — My tame bears — Wolves — 

 Superstition of wolf-children . . ... 263 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Elephants — A herd passing through the Shewalics — Solitary 

 elephants, or elephants in pairs, dangerous — My adventure — 

 Elephant and police hut — Escaped elephants— Elephant pits — 

 A baby elephant — Elephants in the days of the Emperors — Used 

 in battle — Their advance against the army of Timour — Their 

 valour at the capture of Cheitore — Their magnificent appearance 

 at court ceremonials — The elephant of Prince Daniel — Elephant 

 fights — Elephants as executioners — A " must " elephant — Great 

 age of elephants — Elephant of the Emperor Kuttub-ood-Deen 

 dies of grief when the Emperor was killed . . . 282 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 Disappearance of the wild animals — The rhinoceros now not found 

 to the westward of the Ganges — Nor elephants in the forests of 

 Central India— Were formerly there abundant — The lions have 

 also disappeared in the Punjaub and Upper India — Stories of lion- 

 hunting by the Emperors Akbar and Jehangire — Description of 

 Indian lion — Animals in the forest — Their old age — Reflections 304 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 Tour continued — March through the Western Doon — Halt by the 

 river — Washing for gold — Ascent of the Shewalics — Last view 

 of the Doon — Fakirs — Description of them — The Goshines — 

 The J ogees — The Nagas — P'akirs at Hurdwar — Austerities — 

 The fakir at Benares — The wonderful performances 'of the 

 seven Jogees before the Emperor Jehangire — Skill in archery 

 displayed by a young noble— Modern jugglers . . .313 j 



CHAPTER XX. 



Tour concluded — View from a peak — Wildness of the mountains — | 



The pass— Singular rock— March to the Jumna— The deserted | 



palace — Tradition regarding it — Its discovery — The " Beauty " j 



within it — The scenery around — The Jumna and the Tonsc — ! 



March along the canal— The scarcity — Distribution of the relief j 

 funds— The great famine . ... 332 | 



