Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India . vecarpet factory—Delhi—The fort—The Pearl Mosque—The JummaMusjid. The Punjabi sliikari, Nur Mahomet by name, arrivedlast night. He seems an intelligent man. and, like allhis kind, was amply supplied with chits. Alan wentout with him after breakfast, accompanied by Rahman,who is curious to learn Mahomets system of shikar. They were not long before they saw a herd of oorialgrazing about a mile off. Two or three does were asusual on sentry, and as usual also, saw them as soon asthey were seen
Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India . vecarpet factory—Delhi—The fort—The Pearl Mosque—The JummaMusjid. The Punjabi sliikari, Nur Mahomet by name, arrivedlast night. He seems an intelligent man. and, like allhis kind, was amply supplied with chits. Alan wentout with him after breakfast, accompanied by Rahman,who is curious to learn Mahomets system of shikar. They were not long before they saw a herd of oorialgrazing about a mile off. Two or three does were asusual on sentry, and as usual also, saw them as soon asthey were seen themselves. The herd, again as usual,began to move away, when Mahomets strategy came intoplay. Seizing his stick with both hands, he commencedto thresh the bushes as if he were cutting wood; occasion- AFTER OORIAL. 183 ally breaking off small branches and collecting them intobundles. We followed his example; and the oorial, nodoubt taking us to be village woodcutters, after a fewsuspicious glances settled down again to graze. We pre-tended to work hard for about a quarter of an hour, when, r. HEAD OF OORIAL, SHOT AT NUKPOOR. the oorial seeming to be quite reassured, Mahomet and Iplaced our bundles of wood on our heads and slowlyretired by the road we had come, Mahomet telling theothers not to leave the place, and to continue to makea pretence of cutting grass and wood. A turn of the road soon hid us from sight, and then 184 RIFLE AND SPEAR WITH THE RAJPOOTS. we settled our plan for a stalk. The oorial were on thetop of a small range of hills, and not easy to approach, forbetween us lay a flat plain full in their view. We hadto make a long circuit to get the wind, and cross beyondthe open space. Then the slope of the hills concealed us,and, creeping and crawling through broken ground andgood cover, we got to within sixty yards of the were two rams, one, the nearest, a splendid fellowwith horns at least twenty-nine inches long. As he stood still, looking quiet
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