CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XXV 



PAO> 



Move my camp — En route to Abyssinian border — Halt at Earia — 

 Oungdya bitten by a snake — Rough-and-ready remedies — The 

 patient recovers— A deadly adder —I am regarded as a curiosity — 

 An involuntary exhibition — Bad water — The water difficulty — 

 March resumed — Shoot a wart-hog — The animal described — A 

 permanent camp — Good sport — Native elephant hunters — Their 

 methods described — Quotation from Sir Samuel Baker — Hamstring- 

 ing elephants — A renowned Arab hunter — Advancing on his quarry 

 — The bay mare — Face to face — A tense moment — The hunter 

 hunted— Clever manoeuvring — The blow delivered — A handful of 

 dust — The second blow — Bleeding to death — A herd of giraffe — 

 The Somali speciee different from South African — I secure a fine 

 old bull — The hunt described — Another bull shot — The wild ass — 

 Secure two as speoimens — A woman and child abandoned by 

 Somalia — I act the good Samaritan — Death of the mother — The 

 infant on my hands— How to rear it ? — The problem solved — Con- 

 densed milk and sago — Wonderful results — The pet of the camp — 

 Infant physical culture — The Somali method — My leave draws to a 

 close — Forced marches to the coast — Malodorous trophies — Back 

 to Bombay — I meet Sir Samuel Baker — Interesting conversation — 

 An enthusiastic sportsman 190 



CHAPTER XXVI 



At Dbarwar again — Hear of wild elephants in Kanara jungle — Damage 

 done to crops — Native district officer puxzled — His petition to 

 Government — Forest officer and myself consulted — Suggestion and 

 inaction — I act on my own — Special shooting camp — An unlucky 

 guest — Some emtio shooting — " Nearly a record bag " — Com- 

 mendable perseverance — The ^ephants at last — A moonlight hunt 

 — Watching the herd — Close quarters — 1 fire at a bull — A forehead 

 shot — Effect instantaneous — Another boll floored — Let off a small 

 one — The herd m^kes off— Congratulations — Dangarous " vermin " 

 — Natives' misuse of English words and phrases — A slave to roles 

 and regulations — The lonely railway station — Young Bengal — A 

 sudden invasion — Flight of the staff — Besieged in his offic*— Only 

 thing to be done — A wire to Headquarters — " Tiger in oharoe " — 

 Reauxing the situation — A night of mental torture — Morning farinfi 

 relief— Wild dogs — The damage they do— A nnlsanoe to ■yoitiin w i 

 — Hunting in Moks — Tigers ooceitenally •ttaoked— Desenpfekm of 

 the animal — Differenoe between the wild and the domestfe dog — 

 Crocodile, method of MiMking their Tiotims— The final nah . . 196 



CHAPTER XXVII 



Wild-fowl and small nme plentiful— CooUn and 8ani»— Vsnwted 1^ 

 n a ti v s s M a n y alligators— I shoot one— Internal evldenee of homan 

 ▼lettna— Muggnrs— The snob-noeed varie^^-Oood fishing— Wild 

 figi md fron as bait— Shootbig fish— llkieves In camp Bo— 

 desoription oltheir methode A vletim's wperienoe Chntoe between 



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