2o6 A Sportswoman in India 



missariat was often ba,dly packed, too cake being 

 saturated with sardine oil, having been packed cheek 

 to cheek with an open sardine-tin. This was a 

 trifle. 



I remember Sala Bux once forgot to pack S.'s 

 mackintosh. He gave it, therefore, to a coolie to carry. 

 At the end of the march he brought it to us, and it 

 was necessary to hang it up at once, spread out in the 

 open, when several crows promptly appeared, and 

 perched, pecking, upon it, as they do upon sheep 

 at home. 



It was a silent and thickly wooded jungle which 

 closed around us at our backs at Netanissa ; the river 

 was deep, flowing without a sound; and the country, 

 appearing to be little inhabited, should be exceedingly 

 likely for bear. 



The Himalayan black bear is essentially a forest- 

 loving animal, and seldom ascends above twelve 

 thousand feet ; he does not, like the red bear, delight 

 in digging for roots on the grassy slopes immediately 

 below the snow-line. He is a larger and heavier 

 animal than the Indian bear, and occasionally, certainly, 

 he proves a formidable antagonist. 



Colonel Kinloch says in his well-known book : 

 " I have known more than one British officer killed 

 by black bears, while one constantly meets with natives 

 who have been terribly mutilated in encounters with 

 one of the species ; but these accidents have usually 

 occurred when the animal has been attacked or suddenly 

 met with in thick cover, where the bear had every 



