Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India

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Excerpt from 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 ElephantsJ aokal-hunting with fox-hounds - Greyhounds - Fox and Hare Coursing - A Foot Pack in Dacca - Dogs for Hunting Formidable Game - Sir Samuel Baker's Sport in Ceylon - bull-dogs for Hunting Bears, Bison, Buffaloes, &c., - Constitution of a Pack - Incidents in large-game Hunting with Dogs - My First Attempt - The Pack Seize a Bear - Another bear-hunt - Obliged to Shoot the Bear - Damage Sustained by the pack-a bison-hunt - Bill Sykes - Motto for Seizers - The Dogs are almost Choked - The Pack Seize a Young Elephant - A Commemoration Dinner - Bill Sykes Distinguishes Himself single-handed - Fight with a Panther - Objection to Spiked Collars for hunting-dogs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.