. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. Hunting; Game protection. THE HAVILDAH'S STORY I'jt living in our parts, and you know, sahib, that the jungles of Nepal are full of beasts. Tigers are common, so are "leopards, the rhinoceros roam about the jungles, and buffaloes exist there and are very fierce. All the deer tribe are plentiful and mighty sambhar are killed at times. I never had any difficulty in persuading old Sher Bahadur (the Great Tiger, as he was called) to take me out, once I had grown strong enough to be able to keep up with him. And, sahib, you should see the jungles
. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. Hunting; Game protection. THE HAVILDAH'S STORY I'jt living in our parts, and you know, sahib, that the jungles of Nepal are full of beasts. Tigers are common, so are "leopards, the rhinoceros roam about the jungles, and buffaloes exist there and are very fierce. All the deer tribe are plentiful and mighty sambhar are killed at times. I never had any difficulty in persuading old Sher Bahadur (the Great Tiger, as he was called) to take me out, once I had grown strong enough to be able to keep up with him. And, sahib, you should see the jungles of Nepal. Perhaps some day you may be lucky enough to do so. They are a shikari's paradise. Great stretches of tiger grass, interspersed with high sal forest, with open savannah-Uke grassy plains where you may count the. herds of chital in hundreds and sambhar and barasingha in scores. One day we set out from the village on a shooting excur- sion to the lower jungles, to procure meat for the village, and such skins and horns for sale as our luck gave us. It was in a break in the rains, and for two days the sun had been shining brightly and the heat was very great. It would be hotter lower down, we knew, but what cared we for the heat when there was shikar to be had. Our village was situated at about four thousand feet in the hills, and looked like the villages you see out in the district round here. It consisted of some twenty-five houses, and to me it was not only home, but it contained the thing I most valued on earth, for I had recently been betrothed to the most beautiful girl in our village or in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stebbing, Edward Percy, 1870-1960. London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company
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