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ground. To these cords a small twine or silk 

 thread is fixed, which is passed across the path- 

 way, and suspended by two forked sticks, 

 about the height of the breast of a deer. 

 When the deer run against this line, it draws 

 together the nooses, at the same time elevating 

 them a little, which being placed immediately 

 under the twine, catches them by the legs. 

 The cord on the ground is kept from view by 

 being covered with dry or green leaves. 



When deer are known to destroy gram, a 

 kind of vetch of which they are very fond they 

 erect platforms as before mentioned, which sel- 

 dom have houses on them, but simply a place 

 to sit on, secure from the tigers, where they 

 wait to shoot them when they come to feed at 

 night. Sometimes the platforms are made in 

 trees, and often the people wait in holes made 

 in the ground, as I have before described. 



A very curious circumstance happened to 

 me when I was sitting in a pit for the purpose 

 of shooting Nylgaus, near the village of Pin- 



