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four of them would drive out of the covers, 

 more I am certain, than twenty common peo- 

 ple would have done not being professed she- 

 carries. 



Some danger attended these excursions; it 

 not unfrequently happening that shecarries 

 were taken away by tigers ; and on these oc- 

 casions, their apathy from a thorough belief 

 in predestination was seldom if ever surpas- 

 sed; although a father mother or brother 

 should be carried away by a tiger, the rest of 

 the family would follow the same business at 

 the same place the next day. 



There are a great variety of deer in Ram- 

 ghur, Saumers, a species of Elk Nylgaus, 

 [Picta antelopes] The common red deer, 

 Spotted deer, The common Antelopes, 

 Deer with four horns, and a very small kind 

 of deer, not larger than the English hare, 

 with long ears, exceedingly active and deli- 

 cately formed, they are very common through- 

 out the country ; and other kinds may be oc- 

 casionally met with. 



