Sport on the Nilgiris and in Wynaad . th his hand, What are you laughing at?I asked, whereat he replied by another question, Whydidnt the dho7ay go round the shola and satisfyhimself there was no track leading out ? BecauseI knew the Paniyans were good trackers, and had noreason to suppose they were misleading me. Well,they were, said Mara; I have been to their village,and this is the truth. When they found this morningthe leopard had returned to the kill, they tracked himto the right shola, and then tried to put you off thescent because they wanted to net him. Theypreferred the tamasha to the
Sport on the Nilgiris and in Wynaad . th his hand, What are you laughing at?I asked, whereat he replied by another question, Whydidnt the dho7ay go round the shola and satisfyhimself there was no track leading out ? BecauseI knew the Paniyans were good trackers, and had noreason to suppose they were misleading me. Well,they were, said Mara; I have been to their village,and this is the truth. When they found this morningthe leopard had returned to the kill, they tracked himto the right shola, and then tried to put you off thescent because they wanted to net him. Theypreferred the tamasha to the present I gave them ? Iasked. They wanted the tamasha and the moneytoo, said Mara, and hoped to get both. As fshook the ashes out of my pipe and started to turn in,I wondered if I should ever get to the back of myAryan brothers sinuous mind. I am wondering still ! THE BISON Scientific name.—Bos name.—Kdf name.—Karti (and others).Kurumba name.—Karti (and others).Nayaka name.—Karti (and others).. THE BISON Do you know that mighty forest, on the Western Mountains crest,Where the lordly bison reigns and roams at will ?Do you know the long days tracking, dawn to dusk without a rest, While the bull keeps moving Jus f before you still?It is there that I am going, with my rifle and my tent. And a tried and trusty tracker that I know;Can a Savage feel contentment in brick and mortar pent ?The Red Gods call me out, and I must go ! (With apologies to R. K.) Every writer on Indian sport begins his chapter onthe bison with the emphatic assertion that he is thefinest specimen of the genus Bos in the world ; andno one who knows this grand animal will dispute theassertion. The name bison, by which he is univer-sally known in India, is of course a glaring misnomer,for he does not belong to the bisontine group, the onlyEastern representative of which is the yak (Bosg-runniens). He falls under the taurine sub-divisionof the genus Bos, which is distinguishe
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