Archive image from page 38 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 CHAPTER II HAPPY DAYS AS AN ASSISTANT Sport as an Assistant in Chota Nagpur—Game animals in the forests and open country—The man-eating tiger-—Two men killed—An un- successful quest—The cattle killers—Sit up for them—Other efforts to meet tigers—M.'s adventure—Leopards—Hyenas, wild dogs and jackals—Stalldng sambhar in the hills—Abundance of good heads— Sambhar and the mhowa flower—Shooting sambhar in the rains— Set out to find a stag—Death of the big stag. j
Archive image from page 38 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 CHAPTER II HAPPY DAYS AS AN ASSISTANT Sport as an Assistant in Chota Nagpur—Game animals in the forests and open country—The man-eating tiger-—Two men killed—An un- successful quest—The cattle killers—Sit up for them—Other efforts to meet tigers—M.'s adventure—Leopards—Hyenas, wild dogs and jackals—Stalldng sambhar in the hills—Abundance of good heads— Sambhar and the mhowa flower—Shooting sambhar in the rains— Set out to find a stag—Death of the big stag. jA S an Assistant in the Chota Nagpur Jungles I had / the time of my Hfe. Although bison were my / first love, and remained my last, my attention - -m. was not confined to this fascinating animal from the hunter's point of view. It was the accident of my first posting to this fine country which enabled me to participate in a sport which many good shikaris only enjoy at the end of their time of service and then often only as the result of a specially planned trip and the expenditure of many hard- earned rupees ; whilst the vast majority probably never have the chance of seeing a bison at all. Even in these jungles, however, I could not spend my days in the one IS
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