XIV SPEARING VARIOUS ANIMALS 237 



By curious fortune I have been in at the death 

 of the two record heads for India, though I speared 

 neither myself. The first fell to Captain Win wood, 

 5th Dragoon Guards. As far as I can remember, he 

 gave a stupid jinking run over easy country. 



The other and the bigger head fell to Mr. PoUok, 

 15th Hussars. We were hunting a grass country 

 when this fine stag got up. He ran a quarter of a 

 mile and then went head first into a water buffalo. 

 He fell back half stunned, and was speared by 

 Pollok at once. I was dismounted, changing a 

 saddle, and only got up at the end. 



Wolf 



I have never had a chance of riding a wolf. I 

 remember Messrs. Bryant, R.H.A., Barry and Pollok, 

 15th Hussars, and Captain Greathed, R.H.A., riding 

 and spearing one in our southern country. Light 

 bourrh land with grass jungles. Bryant got the 

 spear; I believe he and Greathed on the faster 

 horses did the work : both were very well mounted. 

 Bryant was riding a charming horse, Mark II., 

 whom he sold later at a longish price. They hustled 

 the wolf at once from a flying start and got him 

 jinking within two miles, when his fate was soon 

 sealed. I examined him carefully. A full-grown 

 dog-wolf, not gorged, in good condition, and with 

 no signs of mange or sickness on him. 



This is a rare feat and only possible for really 

 good horses under favourable conditions. By this 

 I mean a good start and galloping ground ; I do 

 not mean a sick or gorged wolf. As far as I know, 

 the heat were entitled to all credit ; their wolf, as 

 I have said, was in the pink of condition. 



