CONTENTS. XT 



The Holoya Caste— The Native Beer of Mysore— Invest in a Donkey— The Beat 

 — Shoot the Leopards — The Panther's Cunning Euse — A Sudden Eviction— Shoot 

 the Panther — A Good Bag before Breakfast — Government Reward for Shooting 

 Panthers and Leopards — Circumventing Cunning Panthers — Our Ears Deceive us 

 — My Last Meeting with a Panther — His Strange Behaviour — The Interview Ter- 

 minates Unsatisfactorily. ........ 352 



CHAPTEE XXVL 



THE INDIAN BLACK BEAR (URSUS LAPJATUS). 



Description of — Habits and Disposition — She-Bears Carrying their Cubs — Wounded 

 Bears Attacking Each Other — Food — Bears Drinking Henda — Eating Flesh — 

 Danger of Meeting Bears — Modes of Hunting Bears — A Hard but Successful Day 

 — Bag Four Bears — Jungle-Surgery — Bears at Sakrapatam — The lyenkerry Lake 

 — Felonious Bears — Execute Two out of Five — Make a Further Example of Two 

 More — Boxer and Rosie — Shoot a Bear before a Large Assembly — Native BeUef 

 Regarding Bears Carrying off Women — KUling Bears with Dogs and a Knife. . 366 



CHAPTER XXVIL 



DOGS FOR INDIAN HUNTING. 



Jackal-Hunting with Fox-Hounds — Greyhounds — Fox and Hare Coursing — A Foot- 

 Pack in Dacca — Dogs for Hunting Formidable Game — Sir Samuel Baker's Sport 

 in Ceylon — Bull-Dogs for Hunting Bears, Bison, Buffaloes, &c. — Constitution of 

 a Pack — Incidents in Large-Game Hunting with Dogs — My First Attempt — The 

 Pack Seize a Bear — Another Bear-Hunt — Obliged to Shoot the Bear — Damage 

 Sustained by the Pack — A Bison-Hunt — Bill Sykes — Motto for Seizers — The 

 Dogs are almost Choked — The Pack Seize a Young Elephant — A Commemoration 

 Dinner — BlU Sykes Distingmshes Himself Single-Handed — Fight with a Panther 

 — Objection to Spiked Collars for Hunting-Dogs. . - . . , 379 



