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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER X. 



Dehra Doon — Fossil remains in the Sewalik hills — Variety of 

 game — Spear-grass — A day after small game — Otters — Camp 

 in the Eastern Doon — Self-denial — Elephant sagacity — A 

 plucky mahout — A queer adventure with a crocodile — 

 Pythons — The way we hunted them — Hog-deer — The " chee- 

 tal " or spotted deer — Irregularity in shedding their horns — 

 Four-horned antelopes — The swamp-deer, 



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CHAPTER XI. 



" Null " jungle — Natives treed by a tigress — Cane-brakes — Danger 

 of a timid elephant — A vicious "muckna" — Bogged in a 

 "fussand" — Moula Buksh displays his evil disposition — A 

 terrible game at football — The Kumaon elephant-khedda — A 

 ride after wild elephants — Taming the recent captures — An 

 elephant gladiator — Bringing in a prisoner— Wild bees — The 



result of disturbing them- 

 tiger — A general scrimmage, 



-We beat a retreat — A contumacious 



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CHAPTER XII. 



The surrow — Gopee Chund hill — Native folk-lore concerning it — 

 A lucky shot — Extraordinary spectacle — Another lucky shot — 

 An old and valued friend — The spirits of the mountain — A 

 shockingly bad shot — Driving out a surrow— A beautiful scene 

 — Wild animals recovering from bad wounds — A mended bone 

 — Driving a " khud " — The surrow are circumvented, . 



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CHAPTER XIII. 



Summer in the j^lains of India — The Pir Punchal range — A native 

 gentleman — Kazima — Two real shikarees — The luarkhor — 

 Glorious panorama of mountain scenery — A serious accident 

 and an awkward predicament — Ilatha's surgery — Native hos- 

 pitality — A " drive " under difficulties — Dangerous slopes, 



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