THE BANTING* 
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I should probably have had much better sport, for when this 
is done the native sportsmen kiU vast quantities of all kinds 
of game. Their mode of proceeding is as follows : They 
surround with ropes a large portion of ground including 
several clumps of forest trees and jungle. The deer and 
banting take shelter in these and are beaten out. The 
deer will not face the rope and numbers are cut down by 
the horsemen. They never attempt to attack a bull banting, 
but the cows are sometimes killed in the melee. 
The Banting {Bos. scmdaicHs), somewhat like our Indian 
bison only not so large and with smaller horns, is plentiful ; 
the bulls are particularly fierce and dangerous, I had not 
a chance of coming across one, but have heard them close by 
