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CHAPTER III.
Tame Bear. His Tragical End.-Snipe.-Water-fowl.-Jey-
pore. Our First Bear.-A belated Bruin.-Indian Badger.
-Bears and Dogs.-Sacred Birds.-Strange Cure for Dysen-
tery.-Kimedy.-Snipe-shooting.-Bears at Mongolwalsah.-
Death of a Bear.-Two Bears in a Bush.-Antelope.-The
Bear and Brahmin.-Lucky Pistol-shot.-Bear and Panther.
-March to Secunderabad.-Money-lenders.-New Canton-
ment laid out. - Cholera in marching Regiments. Sad
Deaths of a Family
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CHAPTER IV.
Building Lines.-Great Storm.-Country round Secunderabad.
-Custard Apples.-Toddy.-British Soldier's Pic-nic.-Tiger
Rock at Ramaram.--Suicide of a Sepoy.-Murder of a Native
Officer. The Mowlally Feast.-Processions of the Nobles.-
Return of Processions to City.-To the Percall Lake.-
Fishing. Noisy Tigers.-Spotted Deer.-Shoot a Bear.—
"Tommy Atkins" on a Spree.-Ramdospillay.-Animal in
Tent.-Boldness of Panthers.-Homily on Gun Accidents.
-Sham Fights
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CHAPTER V.
March to Cuddapah.-Snipe at Yellagode.-Murder of a
Civilian. The Happy Valley.-Abundance of Partridge.-
A Bear shot.
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On duty to Cumbum. Rock Snake and
Fowl. Fish and Fishing. The Cumbum Lake. — A
Sambur shot. Also a Python and a Cobra. - Jungle-fowl
Shooting. Return to Cuddapah. - Death of a Cunning
CONTENTS.
Bear. Yenadee Trackers. Wild
Dogs.-Nulla Mulla
Mountains.-Man-eating Tiger.-Torture and the Torture
Commission. Again to Cumbum. Monstrous Cobra.-
Curiosities of a Grave-yard. - Officer mauled by a Bear.
-Shikarry Nunnoo. Sambur shot.-Sambur and Wild
Dogs.-Suicide of an Officer.-March to Trichinopoly.
CHAPTER VI.
Trichinopoly.-Coollamullay Mountains.-Thieves of Trichi-
nopoly. Cattle Poisoners.-Salem. - Shervaroy Hills.-
Narinjeepett.-Voyage down Cauvery River.-A Bear Shot.
-Bear and Cubs.-The Cummum Valley.-Rous Peters.—
Nursingpooram.-Unsuccessful Encounter with Elephant.—
Bull Bison shot. Also immense Python.- Embarkation
Duty. My First Elephant.-"Story of a Campaign "
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CHAPTER VII.
Another Tour in Southern Division.-A Revengeful Old
Woman. Veeranoor. Bear-shooting. Rungamullay.
Belling the Boar.-How to Poach for Hog.-A Pair of
Tuskers.-Four Elephants shot in one Herd.-Bear and
Cub.-Enormous Centipede.-The "Boycotted" Moslem.-
A Week with Bruin.-The "Hunting of the Bear."-Some
Bear Stories.-Himalayan Bears
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CHAPTER VIII.
"A Week with the Pachyderms."-On Leave to England, and
back to India. - To Trichinopoly. Embarkation Duty.-
Autancurray. Advantages of Autancurray as compared
with Madras Harbour. The Sepoy Mutiny. - Why no
Mutiny in Madras. To Beypore on Duty. - Walliaur
Jungle.-Gun Accident at Walliaur.-Down the Cauvery
in Basket-boat.-Appointment to Nagpore Force.-From
Trichinopoly to Kamptee.-Bears at Pericait.-Arrive at
Kamptee. Climate of Kamptee . 202
CHAPTER IX.
Kamptee.-To Poonah.-With 91st Regiment to Kamptee.-A
Strange Panic.-A Man lanced to Death.-On Leave to
Seldoo. Shoot a Neilghye and a Bear.-Festival at Maha-
deo, and Cholera.-Shoot a Bear and a Sambur.-To
Moothoor. Signs of Cholera along the Road.-A Tiger at
Night. Chindwarra. Ascent of Mountains. Shoot a
Barking Deer and a Bear. - Return to Kamptee. Shoot
a Bear and a Spotted Deer. To Azimgaum. - Shoot a
Sambur. A Bad Shot at a Tiger.-Tigress and Cubs.-To
Chankee Kopra.-Tiger and Leopards.-Fierce Leopard.-
To Moothoor with Sir R. Temple. Strange effect of a
Shot on a Sambur.-Jilmillee.-Four Tigers shot and Two
Men killed
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The "Paddy Bird's" Wild-fowling.-Timid Elephant.-
Shoot a Sambur and Panther and Blue Bull.-Borekaira.-
Shoot a Bear.-Four Bears in one Lair.-Shoot two of them.
"The Sow! the Village Sow!"-Narrow Escape of Chief
Commissioner.-To Bombay and back.-Cholera in my
Camp.-Bear shot.-Death of a Panther.-Last look at
Nagpore Jungles.-Ramteerut and River Wurdah.-Shoot a
Tiger and Tigress.-A Family of Tigers.-Shoot a half-
grown Cub.-A fierce Tigress.-Again to England
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CHAPTER XI.
The Man-eater of the Pench Villages.-Ambush of Shikarries
and Death of Man-eater.-Seeonee Man-eater.-Gun-bearer
killed.--Man-eater's Death.-Khyraghur Tiger kills a Dog-
boy, and is shot.-Doings of the Dhawa Leopard.-The
Natchingaum Panther.-An Idiot killed.-Panther trapped.
-Woman seized by a Hyæna.-Boy eaten by Pariah Dogs.
-Boy killed by a Python.-Statistics of Wild Animals in
Central Provinces.-Deaths by Snake-bite.-A Pack of
Panthers
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CHAPTER XII.
To Secunderabad.—Buy an Elephant.-Rawrapett.-Family of
Tigers.-Kill three Cubs.-Procession of the "Lungur."-
Sir Richard Temple as Resident.-The Reformed Troops.-
African Body Guard.-Murder of a Native Woman.-Exe-
back to India. - To Trichinopoly. — Embarkation Duty.—
Mutiny in Madras. To Beypore on Duty.— Walliaur
Kamptee.-Climate of Kamptee . 202
Kamptee. To Poonah.-With 91st Regiment to Kamptee.-A
Moothoor. Signs of Cholera along the Road.—A Tiger at
Night. Chindwarra. Ascent of Mountains. - Shoot a
Barking Deer and a Bear. Return to Kamptee. Shoot
a Bear and a Spotted Deer. To Azimgaum. — Shoot a
Sambur.-A Bad Shot at a Tiger.-Tigress and Cubs.-To
Chankee Kopra.-Tiger and Leopards.-Fierce Leopard.—
To Moothoor with Sir R. Temple. - Strange effect of a
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