. The north-western provinces of India : their history, ethnology, and administration . -r I \ -iLr*!, i t \ - BAHELIVA SHIKARIS. thp: people : their ethnology and sociology buffalo as a bait for a tiger, and at the first blush of dawnsteals through the jungle and often watches the brute sleep-ing the sleep of repletion beside his victim. Some of themare exceedingly plucky in such dangerous work, and theirknowledge of woodcraft, the habits of game, the markingdown of footsteps in the sand of a dry watercourse, are oftenadmirable. But, like their brethren in other lands, they aregifted with
. The north-western provinces of India : their history, ethnology, and administration . -r I \ -iLr*!, i t \ - BAHELIVA SHIKARIS. thp: people : their ethnology and sociology buffalo as a bait for a tiger, and at the first blush of dawnsteals through the jungle and often watches the brute sleep-ing the sleep of repletion beside his victim. Some of themare exceedingly plucky in such dangerous work, and theirknowledge of woodcraft, the habits of game, the markingdown of footsteps in the sand of a dry watercourse, are oftenadmirable. But, like their brethren in other lands, they aregifted with a playful imagination, and will beguile the con-fiding grif with tales of legendary tigers of gigantic sizeand terrible ferocity, from whose clutches they have only bya miracle escaped. Or they will enlist a real jungle man, aKol or Kharwar, to do all the really dangerous part of thetracking and claim the credit themselves. But to the sports-man they are indispensable from their marvellous knowledgeof the jungle, and if he treats them well and believes a titheof what he is told they
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