CHAPTER IL 
wo L\^E.S— HUNTING IN CONCERT— MODE OF ATTACK— THEIR PliRS EVE RANGE— 
SELDOM ATTACK HUMAN WEI NGS— JOIN GRKV HOUNDS IN CB ASK— SUPER- 
STITION AH TO THIvIR KI.OOD— WILD DOGS— CHEAT POACHERS—HUN TING 
IN PACKS --ATTACKS ON THE SAMBUR— MUNCOOSE AND COURA — MODE 
OF ATTACKING THE COBRA— ITS RAPID MOVEMENTS CAUSE OF SAFETV — 
PROTECTION PROM SNAKES WHEN OUT SHOOTING — PIG-STICKING — THE 
"DEAL-'TAfll-E" HUNT AT AHMEU NUGUER— MY FIRST SPEAR— TWO METHODS 
OF PIG-STICKING— A R.iLD BOAR— SUPERIOKITV OF THE ARAH HORSE— 
A LONG RIlHi—THE HAPPV VAIXEY— SMALL GAME SHOOTING. 
WOLVES. 
f)FTEN came across wolves when out after antelope, 
and on other occasions. They arc generally seen in 
small packs of four or five, but at times in greater 
numbers. It is wonderful how they work in concert ; on one 
occasion when returning with a friend from a trip to the Caves 
of Ellora, we saw a lierd of antelope near a range of low rocky 
hills, and as there was a dry nullah or watercourse giving an 
easy approach ^ we decided on stalking them. While creeping 
up the nullah we noticed two animals coming across the plains 
on our left ; at first I took them for leopards, but as they came 
nearer I saw they were wolves, and when they were about 
five hundred yards from the antelope they quietly laid down, 
y\fter about ten minutes or so, the smaller of the two got up 
and trotted off to the rocky hills, and suddenly appeared on 
