16 DESCRIPTION OF A HUNQUAH. 



from ten to twenty miles around it in every 

 direction where there were rivers, or plains to 

 intercept the progress of the fire,, and prevent 

 its immediate communication with the reserv- 

 ed cover; the consequence was,, that nearly 

 all the animals in the neighbourhood were 

 compelled to take shelter in the reserved jun- 

 gle. 



The day before the hunt or driving com- 

 menced, several hundred people were sent to 

 the leeward* extremity of the reserved cover, 

 where they fixed on a proper place, and set 

 the nets, which extended about a mile, not in 

 continuation, but at intervals. They required 

 four or five elephants and twenty or thirty bul- 

 locks to carry them. Each net was about forty 

 feet long, and seven feet high, the cords be- 

 ing of the size of a man's little finger, lightly 

 twisted, with meshes about eight inches 

 square, made without any knot whatever, 



* The wind at that season seldom yaries. 



