1094 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol, XXVIII. 
The party at Kachnaria on the night of the 5th February comprised : — 
H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, 
Colonel Nawab Sir NasruUah Khan, 
The Earl of Cromer, 
Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, 
Colonel Worgan, 
Mr. Petrie, 
Commander Newport, 
Lord Louis Mountbatten, 
Colonel C. E. Luard, Political Agent in Bhopal. 
Colonel McConaghy, Agency Surgeon in Bhopal. 
Sahibzada HabibuUah Khan, 
Sahibzada RafiquUah Khan, 
Colonel Nawabzada ObeiduUah Khan, 
Lt.-Col. Nawabzada Hamidullah Khan, 
and the WTiter. 
The following diary extracts are the writer’s impressions of the shooting ; — 
6<A February . — Although several people got up early to shoot, most waited for 
the Prince ; and until 9 am. the party awaited news of a “ kill.” 
The Prince then set out on horse-back accompanied by Nawabzada Hamidullah 
Khan, the Begum’s youngest son, who was also a member of His Royal Highness’ 
suite, and Sahibzada HabibuUah Khan. Sir NasruUah then foUowed in a car in 
which were Colonel Luard and myself. The route led from Kachnaria to Salamat- 
pur Station, 3 miles off, whence a fine metaUed road leads to the old fort of 
Raisen. After traveUing some distance along the road our car picked up 
Admiral Halsey who had been out since early in the morning and had shot a 
NUgai, about two miles from the Station. 
The country on either side of this road was cultivated except where the hiUs 
come close up to it, and the fields were covered with a fine crop of wheat, 
easUy grown without irrigation on the fertile soil of this region. The wheat, 
though it looked very stunted to eyes accustomed to the com-lields of England, 
was in fact a first rate crop. 
Soon the car reached the old fort of Raisen standing high above the road on a 
lofty rock, 1 ,980 feet above sea level. Founded in early days of Hindu domination 
in these parts, it subsequently became one of the strongholds of the local 
dynasty of the Muhammadan Sultans of Malwa, whose capital was the ancient 
fort of Mandu, near Mhow Cantonment. Held by various competitors for 
power in these parts, it witnessed many a sanguinary struggle, falling to the 
Emperor Sher Shah (1543) only after a protracted si ge when, as the picturesque 
aecount of the old historian says, its defender, a Hindu, “ ‘ Puran Mai ’ and 
his eompanions, Uke hogs at bay, faded not to exhibit valour and gaUantry, 
but in a twinkling of an eye, aU were slain.” It is now but the shed of a fort, 
yet its massive stone wad, pierced with nine gate-ways, and its thirteen bastions 
stid defy the elements. But this is a digression. 
At Raisen the car swung off on to a speciady prepared fair-weather road through 
jungle country and round fearsome comers, no relaxation of speed being considered 
necessary by the drivers because the road was “ Kacha”, though possibly 
Mr. Nash (the car’s maker) might have expostulated had he been 
present. 
At a spot a little distance from Raisen we halted for a short time to wait 
for the Prince who was on horse-back some way behind. It was a most 
picturesque place, where a shrine and small Idgah stood in a waded enclosure 
surrounded by trees — the tomb of Pir Fatehudah Shah. 
At the Pir’s tomb we were joined by Colonel Worgan who was dmping, being 
rather lame after a reeent polo accident ; he had been out very early, but had 
only flushed some smad game ; shortly afterwards the Prince of Wales came 
