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TWO YEAES IN" THE JUJS'GLE. 



but in the distance there was discernible only a sea of green forest, 

 broken here and there by grassy glades. My companion pointed 

 out the location of the Government Eesei-ved Forest at Mudumal- 

 lay, where Indian bison (Bos gaurus), and sambur deer were nu- 

 merous, and we planned a trip there fortliAvith. 



The last day we "visited our favorite poiiit of observation we 

 beheld a cloud-scene which was remarkably beautiful. From our 

 lofty height we looked down upon a sea of billowy white clouds as 

 white as the whitest pearls, which so completely obscured the plain 

 below that there was no visible evidence of its existence. Above 

 the expanse of clouds the air was clear, the sun shone bi'ightly, and 

 the gi'im, gray precipices and lofty peaks which loomed up round 

 it and gu't it in, were not more motionless than this sea of clouds. 

 As a rule, it is folly for a traveller to describe a cloud-scene, and I 

 mention this only to call attention to the sui-jDassing beauty of a 

 mass of clouds when seen in sunshine from above and surrounded 

 by grim and sombre outlines. 



At the end of five days' very laborious hunting over the hiUs we 

 returned to Oocatamund. So far as specimens were concerned the 

 hunt had been a total failure, for we had not a single one ; but any 

 man who could regret such a trip as that on such grounds deserves 

 to be shut up in a work-shop all his life, and see nothing of natiire 

 except musty skins and skeletons. 



