G. P. Sanderson
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 454
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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 Elephants J 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.