118 TWO YEAKS IN THE JUNGLE. 



good hands, and so long as I remember India I shall recall with 

 pleasure the evenings I spent at Grasmere. 



For some weeks I had been corresponding with IVIr. A. G, R 

 Theobald, a forest officer on the Animallai Hills, and he depicted 

 such a splendid prospect for elephants, bison, and other large game, 

 that I determined to visit his locaUty for six or eight weeks at least. 

 Accordingly, as soon as I felt strong enough, I packed up my speci- 

 mens and sent them to Madras, while I bade adieu to the Neil- 

 gherries and started south. 



So far as specimens were concerned, my Neilgherry trip was 

 not a complete success, and on that score I felt somewhat disap- 

 pointed. I had the fever in my sj'stem, also, as I plainly felt. Tnie, 

 I had escaped the fierce heat of the plains during the hottest 

 months, May and June, and, had I desired, I could not sooner have 

 gone to the Animallais, because there were no rains and therefore 

 no water upon those hills, until the burst of the southwest mon- 

 soon late in June. 



