viii CONTENTS 



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—A Hot-Weather Excursion— Dance of tlie Peacocks— Deer 

 Shooting from a " Dug-out "—The Spotted Deer— An Interview 

 with a Tiger— The Monkeys' Leap — Immense Herd of Deer — A 

 Famous Tiger— A Successful Beat— A Midnight Intrudei>-The 

 Man-eater of Pouhri — Ghostly Legend — Coursing the Sambar — 

 Native Dogs— The Wild Dog — Banjara Dogs — ^The Black Bear— 

 A Family Charge— Bear Shooting— Large Python . . .263 



CHAPTER IX 



THE SAL FORESTS 



Head Streams of the Narbadar-The Mandla Plateau— A Prairie Country 

 — Character of the Uplands — Scenery — Climate — Scanty Popula- 

 tion — G6nds — Bygas — ^Their Retired Habits — Poisoned Arrows — 

 Courage of the Bygas — Patriarchal Institutions — ^A Singular Race 

 — ^The Byga Medicine Man — ^Tiger Charming — ^A Pleasant Custom 

 — ^Byga Seers — Religious Sentiments — ^Destruction of Sal Trees — 

 The Damrner Resin — ^Traffic of the Bygds — Character of the Sal 

 Forests — Forest Products — Lao Dye — Tusser Silk— A Grazing 

 Covintry — Value of Cattle — ^Prospects of the Country — ^Its Re- 

 sources — Causes of Backwardness — ^Wanting Population — Distance 

 of Markets — ^Malaria — Advantages of the Tract for Settlers — 

 European Colonisation — ^Field for Enterprise — ^A Missionary At- 

 tempt — ^Land Jobbing — ^Prospects of Missions — ^Wild Animals — 

 The Red Deer— Its Habits — Variety of Game — A Christmas 

 Party— Beating with Elephants— A Tiger Shot Flying— The 

 Hdlon Valley— A Mendicant killed by a Tiger— Stalking the Red 

 Deer— Kill a Stag— A Run at a Hind— A Wild Elephant— Singular 

 Freak — Range of Wild Elephants — ^Tigers Roaring at Night — ^A 

 Remarkable Serenade — Large Herds of Red Deer — ^The Wild 

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CHAPTER X 



AN EXPLORATION IN THE FAR EAST 



A Commanding Promontory — The Source of the Narbada — Sivite 

 Legends — Fine View — ^A Long Exploration — ^The Wild Buffalo — 

 Its Range and Habits — Criminal Trespass — The Police called in — 

 We slay the Invader — ^Toughness of the Buffalo — Size of his Horns 

 — ^A Voyage down the Mdhanadi — ^The Country of the Kh6nds — 

 More Buffaloes — ^A Feverish Region — Buffalo Hunting on Horse- 

 back — ^A Vicious Cow — Upset by a Bull — " Tinker " to the Rescue 

 — ^A Curious Sentinel — Treed by Buffaloes — ^The Enemy retires — 

 Danger of Buffalo Shooting — ^A Cumbrous Trophy — ^Maroh for the 

 Elephant Country — ^A Decayed City — An Unfortunate Seizure — 

 Retire to Laafagarh — ^A Hospitable Chief — ^The Bygas again — 

 A Primitive Pipe — ^An Amazing Spectacle — ^The Elephant God — 

 Life at LaafAgarh — ^The Doctor discomfited — Jungle Delicacies — 

 The Thdkdr's Yams — ^A Tiger shot with an Arrow — ^An Elephant 

 done to Death — A " Loathly Worm " — Wild Animals on the Hill 

 — An Irksome Prison — ^Make another Start — ^A Splendid Game 

 Country — ^A Herd of Elephants — ^A Solitary Tusker — ^Almost an 

 Adventure — ^A Villainous Termination — Explore the Country — 

 Bhumia Trackers — Fate of a Herd of Elephants — ^A Vast Sal 

 Forest — ^The Way Lost — Beat out a Bhumia — ^Habits of the Bhumito 



