CHAPTER II. 

 THE BEAE (Ursua labiatus]. 



The big bear of Burbose Is shot by Poulton Bear at 

 Loashera Spearing tournament The bear is victorious 

 Shoot she-bear and capture cub Cub routs our visitors 

 Murrel fishing March to Mowtool Affair with bear 

 Bear spearing by Colonel Nightingale Dislike of horses to 

 Jamakapett Bears' Paradise Shoot three bears 

 Expenditure of ammunition A warm corner Kill three 

 more bears Capture cub Pugnacity of bears Peculiar 

 bone Its properties Bears reputed to kidnap women 

 Bear spear. 



THE bears of the Central Provinces, in the Madras 

 Presidency, have the reputation of being the largest and 

 most ferocious in Southern India. 



Although they never eat the bodies of their victims, 

 they annually kill a considerable number of natives 

 chiefly wood-cutters, who make their livelihood by 

 gathering fuel in the jungles inhabited by these animals. 



The largest black bear I ever saw was shot at a place 

 named Burbose, in the Koobair district, Nizam's Dominions, 

 where we arrived on the 17th April, 1871. About '2 P.M. 

 a scout brought in news of a bear, so we sallied forth, 

 but meanwhile the brute had changed his quarters, and 

 we saw him ascend a steep hill covered with long grass, 

 about a mile away. Poulton and Manley went up the 

 hill and I guarded the base. After two hours' patrolling 

 the bear broke on the opposite side of the hill from me, 

 but was marked into a nullah, headed back by a village 



