CONTENTS 



PAGB 



Council round the camp fire — Useful information thus acquired — 

 A day in camp described — Fascination of the life — Camping near 

 jungles — Noises in the night — As music to the sportsman — 

 Possibilities of adventure, an example — A dinner interrupted — 

 Face to face with a leopard — Dangerous curiosity — Another 

 camp adventure — A shooting camp disturbed — Besieged by a 

 wild elephant — Its threatening attitude — A thrilling moment — 

 Suspense relieved — A well-considered shot — Comical conclusion — 

 A Christmas camp— Some bears marked down — The beat begun — A 

 frock-coated sportsman — Charged by a bear — His headlong flight 

 — Coat-tails flying — Caught in a creeper — A Scotch doctor to the 

 rescue — A lucky fluke — " Get up, mon, I've shot the bar " — Proud 

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CHAPTER IX 



bear adventure — Following up the tracks — A black object seen — An 

 erroneous conclusion — Firing too hastily — An old woman shot dead 

 — Howls from the Press — Bloodthirsty suggestions — Another bear 

 adventure — A short-sighted sportsman — " Thinking it was a bear " 

 — " What, not dead yet?" — The second barrel — A revelation and 

 explanation — Disturbing the bees — Pandemonium — Horses stung 

 to death — Floods in Khandesh — A perilous adventure — Saving a 

 woman's life — Native gratitude — A thankless task — A change of 

 headquarters — My mosque bungalow — Said to be haunted — The 

 ghost appears — Life at Nundobar — Coursing jackals, etc. — Cholera 

 epidemic — A village devastated — Lose my cook — Death of the 

 apothecary — I turn doctor — A successful prescription — Administer- 

 ing the mixture — My patient recovers — A claim for damages — A 

 police mutiny averted — Drastic measures — My orders upheld — My 

 first attempt at spearing a panther on horseback — An exciting chase 

 — The panther crouching — Avoids the thrust — Seeks refuge amongst 

 the rocks — A lucky escape — Panther spearing — A dangerous but 

 most attractive form of sport — Railways and their influence on 

 game — Revisiting old hunting grounds — Ravages caused by axe and 

 plough — The march of civilization — Jimgle now devoid of game — 

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CHAPTER X 



My duties as tiger slayer — Panthers included — Some description of 

 them — Variety of the species — Size, weight, and markings — What 

 they prey on — Climbing powers — Their courage and ferocity in 

 attack — How they feed on their kills — Man-eating leopards — The 

 black panther rare — The cheetah — Panthers difiicult to locate — 

 Returning to their kills — Dangerous to follow up — An experiment 

 with buck shot — S.S.G. best for close quarters — Panther im- 

 expectedly encountered — My Shikari attacked and mauled — A huge 

 beast — Another panther hiint — Attacks and mauls beater — Its final 

 charge — Finished with S.S.G. — The uncertainty of sport — Killed 

 with a single shot — Handsomely marked skins — An unusual sight 

 — Tiger and panther seen together — Abject terror of the latter — 

 Slinking off into the jtmgle — A tiger's sovereignty of the jungles — 



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