THE BUNGALOiyt DANDILLY FOREST. 
CHAPTER HI. 
SPORTING TRIP TO THE DANDILLY FOREST, 1S44. 
HOPES OF SPORT— A NOVICE'S IN EXPERIENCE— AM EtUCAN AND BEAR— 
JJIFFICULTV OP KEEPING THfi TRACK— OK SEEING ANIMALS— HINTS AHOUT 
STALKING— OLD EMAM THE AFRICAN— KILLING FIKST BISON— AFTER 
TIGERS— TIGER CARRYING OFF THE OFFICER— THE LUCKY GRIFFIN— OUR 
FIRST KILL— NO RESULT— AN UNEXPECTED MEETING— WATSON AND THK 
TIGER— CHASED BY HILL PONIES. 
KVENTY -EIGHT niiles from Kulladghee is the canton- 
ment of DlKirwar, and about thirty-four miles 
beyond, on the Western Ghauts is the Dandilly 
Forest, where there used to be a good shooting bungalow 
pleasantly situated on the banks of the Kala-nuddi or Black 
river. We heard such stirring accounts of the sport to be 
had there, that I longed to get amongst the big game 
and forest shooting. 1 pictured myself killing the largest 
bison and the finest antlered stags, and possibly a tiger, to 
say nothing of leopards and bears! If hope tells a Battering 
