zii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XVL 



INCIDENTS IN ELEPHANT-SHOOTING. 



Camp at Ponjoor — Want of Rain — Move Camp — A Tiger in a Sholaga's Hut — Sholaga 

 Trackers — A Troublesome Cough — Find Elephants — Manoeuvre to get a Shot — 

 KDl a Tusker — I Narrowly Escape an Inglorious End — Jungle -Trackers — My 

 Youthful Tracker Gorrava — The Difference between Hitting and Bagging — Perse- 

 verance—The Kdkankot^ Rogue — His Habits— Kills Two Travellers — Kdkankote 

 — The Cubbany River — Forest — Kurrabas — Their Habits, Food, Appearance, 

 Dwellings — Qarrow and Chittagong Wild Tribes' Dwellings — Kurrabas' Methods 

 of Catching Wild Animals — The Flying Squirrel — Ethnology of the Kurrabas — 

 Old Poojdree — Jungle Tribes' Fear of Elephants — I Reach Kdkankot6 to Hunt the 

 Rogue— News of Him — Track Him — Heavy Rain — Fire at the Rogue — Wild Ele- 

 phants' Rushes — The Rogue Escapes — Melancholy Reflections. . . .201 



CHAPTER XVIL 



INCIDENTS IN ELEPHANT-SHOOTING (continued). 



Second Expedition after the Rogue — He Kills a Kurraba — Wound Him— A Chase — 

 Kill Him — How to Make Fire with Two Sticks — Roll the Rogue's Carcass Over — 

 Cut off His Head — Place His Head on View by the Roadside — The Rogue's 

 Impertinent Friend the Muckna — Take Him Down a Peg — My Best Tusker — 

 An Exciting Hunt — Large Tusks — Wound Him — The Proverbial Stern-Chase — 

 Encounter Him Again — Further Pursuit — Kill Him — Reflections — Shoot an 

 Elephant in a Pit by Accident — A Sporting Parson — The Garrow Hills — Narrow 

 Escape from a Tusker — Sir Victor Brooke and Colonel Hamilton's Big Tusker — 

 A Common Elephant - Shooting Story — Elephants' Powers of Getting Over 

 Wounds 217 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



THE INDIAN BISON {OAVjEUS GAURUS). 



Distribution in India — Appearance — Height — Size of Horns — Gregarious Nature — 

 Food — Character — Habitat — Subject to Murrain — Indian Cattle Diseases — Bison- 

 Calves — Sounds made by Bison — Flesh — The Bison and Mithun or Gayal of 

 Bengal Compared — Never Brought Alive to England — My Opportunities of Ob- 

 serving Bison — Probable Age Attained by Bison — Solitary Bulls — Their Disposi- 

 tion — They Carry the Best Heads. ....... 243 



