CHAPTER XXIII. 



En route to the Plains Wolves Hunting Fastidiousness in Sport 

 of Indian HuntersA Bag on the Bear-Guard A Wolf 'a 

 Tail and a Neilghye's Tongue .-Biding post in India. 



As the march was a good twenty miles, the 

 travellers had ordered their second horses to be 

 placed half-way, so that they might, without over- 

 exerting their animals, ride the distance at a fair 

 pace throughout. 



Roopur, who had been well rewarded, with many 

 of the villagers, came to see them off. Mackenzie 

 had taken good care to ascertain that all just and 

 legitimate demands had been settled in full ; and 

 the people, though probably demanding more than 

 they were entitled to after the manner of natives 

 generally knew that justice had been done. 



As the hunters mounted in the early dawn, and 

 rode by the village mid much salaaming, the women 

 again struck up their chant, and offered to the 

 passing travellers some jungle flowers. A small 



