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recovered, after a rest, from a slight hurt he had experienced dui’hig the arduous 
day’s shoot. They interested His Royal Highness greatly, particularly the 
description of Imperial Sand Grouse vhich he had shot only two months before 
in Bikanir. The Rrmce told me he had at Sandringham several origmal bird pain- 
tings, which he prized very much, by Thorburn, the famous ornithological artist. 
February 1th. — The beats on this day also la}- towards Raisen. Some of the 
party, it may be mentioned, went out at dami but obtamed nothmg. As 
before, the way lay through jungle over kachha roads marked out with stones. 
The advance guard of the party had to wait for His Royal Highness who had 
ridden part of the way. On his arrival at Mawal-Klio (4) the part}^ climbed up 
to the machans which were placed on a high ridge. 
There was dead silence for a time and from my machan I could see that the beat 
had started numbers of langiu's which came bounding through the Ime quite 
miconscious of the presence of the shooters. Two wanted to ascend my machan, 
but the somid of the breaking of a twig frightened them and off they scuttled. 
A sambhar belled, perhaps scenting the tiger, and a small chital passed out. 
Four bears came out close to the Prmce’s machan, two being cubs which kept fall- 
ing back as they tried to follow their parents up the steep cliff, an amusing 
spectacle. 
When the beaters came out Lord Cromer and myself left our machans and 
went to the one on which Colonel Luard was sitting. He pointed cut the risk 
of being below while beating was still going on over part of the line, and so we 
mounted up beside him. Xothmg came out, although it was asserted that the 
tiger was there when the beat began. 
On the wav" back some chital and a buck uere seen. The Prince got out to 
shoot ; but another car coming up frightened the buck away. 
I then Avent back with the party to Salamatpnr Station and from there motored 
on to the skinning camjA. The Prmce and staff returned to Bhopal. On the 
Raesin-Salamatpur road Avhich we traversed we could see the ancient Buddhist 
topes of Sanchi. Colonel Luard told me, and it is interestmg to recollect, that the 
jmigle m this part Avas so thick clming the Pindari War that the existence of 
these famous topes, Avhich had stood on this hill smee 300 B.C., Avas unkiAOAAii 
to all but a fcAV Gonds, and that General Taylor came upon them by accident only 
in 1818. The carA-ed gateAA ays, Avhich can just be seen from this road, standing 
in front of the central tojje are unique specimens of cai’A’ed stone AA ork and date 
from the first century A.D. 
Of the other parties out this day, Captahi DucIIca’ North, Commander NeAv])ort 
and Lord Louis Mountbatten had been far afield to Garhi but returned at 5-30 
p.m. haA’ing seen nothing at all. 
Sir Godfrey Thomas, Sir Geoffrey de MontmorencA', Captain the Hon’ble Piei-s 
Legh and Colonel HarA*ey motored out from Bhopal in a north-Avesterly direction 
to a series of beats m parallel Imes along a thickly-AA ooded ridge. The place A\'as 
called Dhandhar. There Avere a number of Sambhar in the beat. Sir Godfrey 
Thomas had a shot at one that came out opposite his machan, but hit it too 
high up and it had stumbled and AA as gone before he could get in a second shot. 
It passed through the next beat and Su’ G. cle Montmorency had a shot at it 
from long range, but he ncA-er saAv it again, though as it happened it aa us picked 
up dead that eA’enmg after the party had left. 
Sir Geoffre}’ de Montmorency also had success, securing a big Nilgai, and 
Colonel HaiA'ej' shot a jjig on the same daj'. 
The antics of a Mongoose caused them much amusement. It Avas running 
about OA'er some rocks and A\as much harassed by a lot of peacocks A\ ho made 
a great commotion moA'ing OA'er the dry leaA'es, so much so that .people 
thought that at least a sambhar Avas commg out. Sir Godfrey Thomas met AA'ith a 
curious incident in his machan. A fan-tailed fly-catcher (Rhipidura albo-frontata} 
