Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . ur tripinto the wilds beyond, and carried out the very arduous duty of keepingus duly provisioned, and maintaining communications, most amount of provisions required for the two kheddah parties and tameelephants attendants was a little over seventeen hundredweights per diem,so that the commissariat arrangements required no little attention andforethought. The two jemadars did not recommend that the hunting parti
Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . ur tripinto the wilds beyond, and carried out the very arduous duty of keepingus duly provisioned, and maintaining communications, most amount of provisions required for the two kheddah parties and tameelephants attendants was a little over seventeen hundredweights per diem,so that the commissariat arrangements required no little attention andforethought. The two jemadars did not recommend that the hunting parties shouldproceed to their ground by the same course as the stores—the rivers—butproposed that we should march across the hills from Chittagong until westruck the Chengree, where one party might await the arrival of boatsfrom Eungamuttea, and work in the valley of the Chengree, whilst the othercrossed the watershed into the Myanee valley, to be similarly supplied byboats up the Myanee. Having ascertained that a place called Eajamaka- T^ j-l ftSffP®* «,«*„,. v. Aiiiifeun AMurTE$^$ Wi. VI R JZleplianb ccutchuig party 22 SCALE approximately. CHOLERA IN CAMP. 135 Bheeta—camp No. 2 on map—would be a convenient point from which tomake a start, it being the last civilised place in the coast district, I orderedthe kheddah parties to be assembled there by the 27th December. I left Chittagong, a pleasant station notwithstanding all that is said ofits unhealthiness, and its sociable little community of Government officialsand tea-planters, on 26th December 18*75, and reached Baboo Ghat byevening, doing the chief part of the journey in the small steamer before-mentioned, which took me up a tributary of the Kurnafoolie, not markedon map. Elephants met me at the furthest point the steamer, which onlydrew two feet, could reach, and took me, my servants, and effects, to found that cholera had unfortunately appeared amongst the attendantsof our elephants. Sergeant
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