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he found himself confronted with the goat were 

 amusing. After making a demonstration, he 

 retreated into the bushes before I had time to 

 fire, but in a short time he emerged on *the other 

 side of the machan, leaving the goat in undisturbed 

 possession of the path, and I killed him with a 

 single shot. 



I then left Mr. Hart's camp, and made my 

 way to the south-east corner of the Central 

 Provinces, where I had had such fine sport in 

 1909. By the kindness of the Deputy Com- 

 missioner of the Raipur district, and of Mr. 

 Lowrie, the Deputy Conservator of Forests, I 

 had obtained permits to shoot two buffaloes, 

 one in the Bindra Nawagarh Zamindari and one 

 in the Reserved Forest on the Madras border, 

 and I began work in the Reserved Forest. My 

 battery on this occasion consisted of my D.B. 

 450 cordite rifle, which I had obtained special 

 permission from the Government of India to 

 reimport into the country, rifles of this bore 

 being barred in India, and a '350 Rigby-Mauser 

 magazine-rifle, which I had purchased for my 

 second expedition to East Africa. Kana and a 

 friend of his, by name Deo Singh, joined me, 

 and we proceeded to look for tracks. We 

 soon picked up the track of a good bull, and 

 followed it unsuccessfully for two days, losing it 

 eventually upon hard ground quite near my own 

 camp. 



When shooting alone in the Central Provinces 

 I used a small field-officer's Kabul tent, and took 

 with me very few servants, so that the game was 

 not scared by the presence of strangers in the 



