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Wild Dog, Sambur, Spotted Deer, Barking Deer or Muntjac, Indian 
Antelope (Antilope bezoartica), Indian Gazelle or Ravine Deer 
(Gazella Bennettii), Wild Hog, Crocodile, Jackal, Fox, Jungle 
Cat (Felis chaus), Leopard Cat (F. bengalensis), Otter, Porcupine, 
Mouse Deer (Memimna indica), and Hare. 
Of these the Cheetah is said to be “exceedingly rare,” and 
neither the Antelope nor the Gazelle is considered numerous, but 
the rest are apparently common enough. 
Of most of these Mr. Sanderson has a good deal to say, and in 
regard to the more dangerous animals relates some very stirring 
adventures. The elephant naturally receives the largest share of 
his attention, and the chapters devoted to this animal are full of 
nseful statistics and information brought down to the present year. 
_ Contrary to what is occurring in Africa, where elephants are 
getting every day scarcer from continued persecution, the Indian 
wild elephant is protected by Government, and enjoys perfect 
immunity throughout the Western Ghats and the vast jungles which 
extend for hundreds of miles along the foot of the Himalayas into 
Burmah and Siam. 
The mode of catching wild herds in kheddahs, as practised 
by the author to supply the Government of India with beasts of 
burden, is fully described, and the description is rendered the 
more attractive and instructive by the maps, plans, and_nicely- 
executed photo-tints which accompany. 
The largest elephant measured by Mr. Sanderson stood nine 
nine feet ten inches at the shoulder, and the biggest he ever killed, 
a dangerous rogue-elephant in the Kakankote jungle, was nine feet 
seven inches at the shoulder, and measured twenty-six feet two 
inches and a half from tip of trunk to tip of tail. The tusks alone 
weighed seventy-four pounds and a half. 
The price of elephants has risen enormously. In 1835 it was 
£45 per head; tuskers of any pretensions are now worth from 
£800 to £1500 a-piece, and nothing is to be had, as a rule, 
under £150. The chief mart in India for the sale and purchase of 
elephants is at Sonepoor on the Ganges, where a great fair is 
annually held for the purpose. 
It would scarcely be supposed that so unwieldy a creature as an 
elephant could swim well, and yet it does so probably better than 
any other terrestrial mammal. In November, 1875, Mr. Sanderson 
made seventy-nine elephants swim across the Ganges and several 
