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The thermometer, to-day, was at the highest nine- 

 ty, and at four in the morning down to sixty-five ; the 

 wind variable and threatening change of weather. 



The sportsman may here find ample source of 

 amusement. Black partridge, hares, and quail, are 

 found in plenty, without much labour ; and the eager 

 pursuer, who dots not consider the ascending of 

 heights, and creeping into jungles, material obstacles 

 to his amusement, will find two species of fowls, and 

 the deer called parah, by the natives {Cervus Porci- 

 77 us, L.). 



The fish of the nullah arc small, but make a very 

 tasted fr}^ and are an acceptable variety to thescanty 

 supply of animal food procurable : they are mostly 

 of the genus Cyprlnus, four species of which I parti- 

 cularly remarked. The manner of taking fish in these 

 shallow rapid nullahs may not be unworthy of notice. 

 One method is by rod and line ; about eight or ten 

 3'ards of one end of the line is filled with nooses, or 

 snares, formed of horsehair from one to three or four 

 hairs strong, according to the size of the fish expect- 

 ed to be caught ; and at intervals of about fifteen 

 inches, oblong pieces of iron are fixed, to prevent its 

 being carried away by the force of the current : the 

 other end of the line, perhaps ten or twelve yards, is 

 passed through a bow, at the end of a short rod, and 

 kept in the iiand bciow, and both are managed in 

 the same manner as a trowling rod and line ; thus 

 })rcpared, the fisherman casts the end with the snare 

 across the stream, where he lets it remain about half 

 a minute, during which time, he pokes a light forked 

 stick, carried in the right hand, into holes about the 

 stones, thus driving the fish up the stream, against 

 the snares of the line, and on taking it up, generally 

 has secured from one to four fish. By these simple 

 means, he seldom fails, in about half an hour, to get 

 a tolerable fry. 



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