?iii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE IV. 



A MYSORE VILLAGE. 



•^he Village ui Morlay — Advantages of Neighbourhood for Elephant-Catching — At- 

 tractions to the Sportsman — The Villagers — Their Tenure of Lands — Experience 

 in Hunting — Netting Game — Cruelty of the Morlayites to an Elephjmt — Their 

 Houses — Food — Clothing — Temperance — Women — Infidelity amongst — Caste 

 Rules on the Subject — Matrimony in Morlay — The Village Headman — Training 

 the Morlayites — My Trackers — Remarks on Native Shikdries. . , 19 



CHAPTER V. 



THE BILLIGA-RUNGUN HILLS. 



Earthen WaDs — Morlay Hall — HonhoUay River-View — Irrigation — Incursions of 

 Wild Animals into Cultivation — The Rdmasamoodrum Lake — Method of Taking 

 Fish — Sluices — A Native Drowned — Means Used to Recover his Body — The 

 Billiga-rungun Hills — Forest and Vegetation — A Deserted Village — Probable 

 Reasons of Abandonment of Jungle Villages — A Noted Bull Bison — Shoot Him 

 — Lake on the Hills — Hamlets of Yelsdriga and Poonjoor — Bommay Gouda — 

 The Koombappan Goody Temple — Character of the God— Fate of the Last 

 Priest — Ritual Observed — Young Married Women's Prayers — Religion of Natives 

 — Propitiating Koombappah — The Holey Doings of a Holy Man. , . 32 



CHAPTEE VI. 



THE ABIATIO WILD ELEPHANT {ELEPBAS INDICUS). 



Distribution of the Asiatic Elephant — Habits of Wild Elephants — Numerical Extent 

 of Herds — A Female always the Leader of a Herd — The Elephant-Fly — Elephant- 

 Calves — Elephants Swimming — Rogue Elephants — The Mandla Elephant — 

 Night Scene at the Honganoor Lake — Depredations of Elephants less Serious 

 than Usually Supposed — Height of Elephants — Measurement of Foot— African 

 Elephants — Age Attained by Elephants — Where do Elephants Die? — Native 

 Beliefs — Murrain amongst Elephants — Period of Gestation — " Must " Elephants 

 — Female "Must" Elephants — Means of Telling Age of Elephants — Age at 

 which Females Breed — Two Calves at a Birth — Height and Weight of Calves at 

 Birth — The Female Elephant's Affection for her Young — Size of Indian Ele- 

 jihants' Tusks — Consideration of the Uses of their Tusks to Elephants — Absence 

 of Tusks in Ceylon Elephants — Mucknas — Gun^shes — Female Elephants' Tushes 

 — Paces and Speed of Elephants — Inability to Leap. . . . .48 



