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Atlay's mendacity Skirmish with a sow Gun carrier 

 bolts Advance to attack Atlay bolts The encounter 

 Get ear shot Tusker decamps Is found dead 

 Tribal feud Murrain Pitfalls Kheddah elephants 

 Clothes for elephant shooting The foot shot Lines 

 of retreat to be selected To harden bullets Excite- 

 ment of elephant shooting The Hassanore tusker 

 Primary attack fails Is followed up and shot ... page 170 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 DEER (CERVID^E) AND ANTELOPES. 



The Sambur Description of Stalking and driving the 

 Dogs useful in Fondness for cinchona Neddi- 

 wuttum Successful stalk Gopaulswamy Hill 

 Brahmin priests Tippicado Muddoor Get a right 

 and left Unexpected result Antler wounds Sambur 

 and wild dogs Nilghai Spotted deer Muntjack 

 deer Barking powers of Yenison of Four-horned 

 antelope The black buck Stalking the Spearing 

 when wounded Catching with hunting leopards 

 Ring-horned antelope Mountain antelope Mouse 

 deer Burmese deer Daray Effect of Express 

 bullet Shedding of antlers ... ... ... ... 184 



CHAPTER XIY. 

 THE IBEX (Copra Warryatd). 



Ibex on Neilgherries and Pulneys Cause of decrease 

 Description of Annamullay ibex hills Coochmullay 

 ' ' Desperation Chasm " Unsuccessful stalk Shoot 

 two sambur Pig's nest Perringoondah Mullay 

 Difficulties en route Fresh tracks of elephants The 

 shooting ground Kill a saddle back Demoralised 

 Carders Shoot another buck Find a herd Shoot 

 two bucks and a doe Get a right and left Lose both 

 animals over precipice Awkward predicament Cobra 

 Leeches Measurement of ibex Return to Toona- 

 cudavoo Subsequently revisit hill Tiger Ibex in 

 Scinde Ibex ground near Goodaloor Scarcity of 

 ibex Numerous on Annamullays Stalking tactics ... 201 



