130 SPORT IN ASIA AND AFRICA 



buffalo dashed off at great speed and disappeared 

 in the forest. Tweedie fired once with his *5oo 

 black powder Express and hit the buffalo in the 

 flank ; but, as it afterwards appeared, too far 

 back. 



By this time it was too late to do anything 

 more, but at daylight in the morning we took 

 up the track and followed it for three hours. 

 There was blood, but it was frothy blood, and I 

 thought that the animal was hit in the stomach. 

 So evidently did Dhokuri, as he sidled up to 

 me and recommended me to keep my eye on a 

 tree. " Yih bainsa to chot karega " (This buffalo 

 will charge) he said. 



At 9. a.m. I was reluctantly obliged to abandon 

 the hunt, as this was the day for the market in 

 Jaipur at which Ganja was said to be freely sold, 

 and which I had specially come to see. I 

 accordingly gave Tweedie my blessing and my 

 450 cordite rifle, which was more useful, and 

 left him. 



According to Tweedie' s account they came up 

 with the buffalo in the middle of the day, and 

 found him lying in some bushes facing his track. 

 A high wind was blowing from the buffalo to them, 

 which prevented the buffalo from scenting or 

 hearing them, and they had sufficient time for 

 a council of war. One ear of the buffalo was 

 showing ; and, on Kana's advice, Tweedie fired 

 at the animal through the ear. Tweedie and 

 Kana were behind one tree, and Dhokuri and 

 the coolie with the tiffin-basket were behind two 

 other trees. At the last moment the tiffin coolie 

 changed his position ; and the buffalo, charging 



