Yule in the Terai-Dangers from tiger-shooting on elephants- Uncertainty of elephants-Elephants fussing-Elephants re- fusing-Their cowardice-Bolting under fire-Mad elephants Scenery of the Terai-Bees-Heat-Thirst-Evening in camp "Buffalo" Smith - Camp scavengers-Vultures — The Terai shikari-Khooda Buksh-The Maharajah of Bulram- Sporting companions-Shooting from the howdah-Mahouts- Padding tigers-A tigress and three cubs-A mysterious tiger-Smooth-bore guns-Jacky Hills-Highest record of tigers-Tigers charging elephants-A monster python-The preservation of the Terai-Forest fires-Jung Bahadoor's ILLUSTRATIONS. "THE TIGER EMERGED NOT AT THE POINT EXPECTED" Frontispiece "SWAM TO THE HORSE'S HEAD, AND TRIED TO GUIDE THE PANIC-STRICKEN CREATURE" 73 333 66 ONE OF THE CAVALRY CHARGED HOME 106 66 NEVER DID THE BREAKING OF AN INDIAN DAY SEEM SO TARDY" 154 "IN AN ALMOST OPEN PATCH OF SCRUB, WITH ONE PAW 66 ATTACKED THE TIGRESS WITH A STICK AND BEAT IT OFF" "I SIGHTED A BLACK-BUCK AT A DISTANCE". 236 265 61 HAVING CLUTCHED THE PUNKAH ROPE WITH HIS TOE, HE TAILPIECES. "VIS-À-VIS TO THE ASTOUNDED BOAR". "TREACHEROUS YELLOW BOG". 66 INDULGES IN MUCH FENCING AT A RESPECTABLE DISTANCE" 72 "HE WENT FORTH WITH ONE OF OSLER'S DOUBLE READING 66 THESE SEPOYS OPENED THE DOORS OF THE JAIL" 153 185 66 BOUNDING OUT, THE CHEETAH SWEPT ME BEFORE IT 208 66 EDIBLES OF A SORT BEING PROCURED, WE FARED SUMPTU 66 IT EMERGED UPON THE BANK, AND THERE WAS DISPOSED OF" 274 66 AS MUCH OF ITS BODY AS MADE AN IMPERFECT S CURVE" 321 THIRTY YEARS OF SHIKAR. CHAPTER I. DAYS OF GRIFFINAGE. OFFICE WORK IN CALCUTTA-FORT-WILLIAM STUDENTS-THE HAILEYBURY CIVILIANS-A DUMDUM SYMPOSIUM-A BORROWED MOUNT -FIRST JOYS OF PIG-STICKING PIG-STICKING V. HUNTING MY FIRST BENGAL BOAR. ROM time to time the suggestion has been made to me by Anglo-Indian friends. that I should write an account of my experiences in the wide field of Indian shikar. Up to the present time, however, I have always repelled this idea as impracticable, or at least unprofitable. Hitherto I have always been very chary of telling tiger stories viva voce, from a confirmed conviction that the most brilliant conversationalist could not make any such narrative palatable to his A |