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of horns— Tracks of barasingha— The midday siesta— Bark- 

 ing of trees by stags— The silent forest pool— A glorious stag 

 —Chitul— Beauty of the stag— Habits— Size of horns— Chitul 

 tracks -Wariness of the old stag— A herd leaving forest to 

 graze— Patient wait for the stag— Curiosity of does— The stag 

 appears— Darkness approaches— The stag grows curious- 

 Death of the stag P'^g^ 3° 



CHAPTER IV 

 Sambhar— Habits— Does— Appearance— Tracks of sambhar— 

 Size of horns— Mother and youngster— The mother's alarm 

 — The youngster's behaviour— The youngster takes a toss— 

 The sambhar stag— Wariness of— How to find the stags — 

 Disappearance of large stags from plains' forest— Poaching 

 —Tracking the old stags in the hills— Difficult country— 

 The big stag — An unexpected rencontre — A cold wait — 

 Drawn blank^A long tramp— See a stag — Fall of the stag — 

 A difficult descent — Find the stag — Curious horns — The 

 native shikari's two kinds of sambhar 54 



CHAPTER V 

 The hog deer — Appearance and horns — Habits — How to shoot 

 — Shooting off the elephant in grass jungle — Difficult shots 

 — Stalking — Tracks — Barking deer or kakar — An annoying 

 little animal — Appearance — Curious horns — Tracks — Habits 

 — Easy to stalk and kill — Young ones— Indian mouse deer 

 — A tiny deer — Habits — Has no trophy . 75 



CHAPTER VI 

 Some difficulties in stalking — Importance of knowledge of habits 

 of animals met with — Stalking black buck — A fox intervenes 

 — I miss the buck — Monkeys — Run into a family party — 

 Stalk a stag chitul — The monkeys give the alarm — Lose the 

 stag — The monkeys' panchayit ..." 85 



PART II.— HORNS 

 CHAPTER I 

 Bison — The gaur and mithan — Habits — First experiences — The 

 bison country — Appearance of tracks — A tropical storm — 

 How I saw my first bull bison — I wound a bison — Back to 

 camp in the dark — The bison country again — An early start — 

 Face to face with a bull elephant — Run down the bull bison — 

 Fail to bag him — Find a herd — My first bison — A long trek 101 



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