STALKiNG ANTELOPE WiTH PONY, 
CHAPTER I. 
ANTELOPE SHOOTING. 
ANTELOPES — DIFFERENT SPECIES— THElK HABITS, ETC, — MODE OF APPROACHING 
ANTELOPES— SPEARING ANTELOi^ES— COURSING THE FAWNS— COURSING 
THE SWEET SCENTED FOX— TAKING THE BLACK BUCK WITH THE CHEETA 
—THE itOUNTAiN ANTELOPE— IS JT A DISTINCT SPECIES-^THE INDIAN 
BUSTARD- BEST MODE OF STALKING THEItf. 
|y earliest introduction to big game shoo ling was 
at Kulladghee in the Bombay Presidency in 
1839-40; my regiment, the 21st M.N. I. ^ having 
been sent there to take the place of one which had gone 
to the front in the first Afghan Campaign. In those days 
antelopes were very numerous, but very wild and difficult 
to approach. There were two species— (i) the antelope of 
the plains, (Antilope ccrvicapra - bezoartica), the male of 
which is known to sportsmen as the black buck, very grace- 
ful in its movements as it bounds over the open ground, 
and whose handsome head and horns are much prized as 
trophies, 
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