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CHAPTER X. 



THE SHEVEROYS. 



Departure of the gang. Our start. The journey. Salem. 

 The Sheveroy hills, and our reception. Anglo-Indian hospi- 

 tality. Claret cup. News of bison and bears. Googooloo 

 on trail. We follow. A bull-bison lost. The news of bears 

 confirmed. Their habits described. 



A LL were in good spirits, and it would have been 

 4^- a curious sight for a stranger from Europe to 

 have witnessed the departure of our party as they 

 filed through the gateway in front of my bungalow, 

 singing an extemporary song descriptive of the great 

 sporting feats they were going to perform. 



First came our eight horses in their head-stalls and 

 jules (stable-clothing), with their saddles loosely 

 girthed, each led by his respective syce or groom 

 and followed by the grasscutter, who carried the head 

 and heel ropes, gram (a kind of bean), and cooking- 

 pots, &c. Then came my two dog-boys, one with 

 a couple of Anglo-Persian greyhounds, and ' the 

 other with four huge creatures of the Poligar breed, 

 famous animals to lay after a wounded deer, or to 



