20 DESCRIPTION OF A HUNQUAfl. 



fastened as the others. The thorns are both 

 long and sharp, and are so firmly bound that 

 it is impossible for any animal to remove them. 



Loop holes are made for shooting through. 

 In these places, and sometimes on elephants 

 [but not often as it requires very well trained 

 animals to remain quiet at such times] the 

 Rajah and his friends station themselves. 



At the time I was out,, they were on plat- 

 forms and on an elephant to see the sport, and 

 to shoot at the animals which either passed on 

 the outside of the nets, got through them, or 

 leaped over them ; and although it was not 

 right, many were fired at as they approached. 



The night before the sport commenced the 

 Nagarrah* was beaten at the Rajah's resi- 



* Nagarrah is a large drum most times made of baked 

 clay with a skin at each end, they are raised on the 

 highest trees and then beaten ; and are heard at a consi- 

 derable distance 



