CHAPTER IV 



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

 horns — Mother and youngster — The mother's alarm — The young- 

 ster's behaviour — The youngster takes a toss — The sambhar stag — 

 Wariness of — How to find the stag — 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. 



SAMBHAR 



THE sambhar is a much heavier and 

 clumsier animal than the barasingha, 

 and the noise of a stampeding herd is 

 • like unto that of a troop of heavy 

 cavalry charging. Their movements are heavy, 

 and do not possess the beauty and grace peculiar 

 to the smaller deer and many of the antelope, 

 though they are by no means so ungainly and 



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