: Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis James - Inglis James 1845-1908; Hunting India Bihar; Hunting Nepal

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Province of Behar.--Boundaries.--General description.--District of Chumparun.--Mooteeharree.--The town and lake.--Native houses.--The Planters' Club.--Legoulie.

My first charge.--How we get our lands.--Our home farm.--System of farming.--Collection of rents.--The planter's duties.

How to get our crop.--The 'Dangurs.'--Farm servants and their duties. --Kassee Rai.--Hoeing.--Ploughing.--'Oustennie.'--Coolies at Work. --Sowing.--Difficulties the plant has to contend with.--Weeding.

Manufacture of Indigo.--Loading the vats.--Beating.--Boiling, straining, and pressing.--Scene in the Factory.--Fluctuation of produce.--Chemistry of Indigo.

Parewah factory.--A 'Bobbery Pack.'--Hunt through a village after a cat.--The pariah dog of India.--Fate of 'Pincher.'--Rampore hound.--Persian greyhound.--Caboolee dogs.--A jackal hunt.--Incidents of the chase.

Fishing in India.--Hereditary trades.--The boatmen and fishermen of India.--Their villages.--Nets.--Modes of fishing.--Curiosities relating thereto.--Catching an alligator with a hook.--Exciting capture. --Crocodiles.--Shooting an alligator.--Death of the man-eater.

Native superstitions.--Charming a bewitched woman.--Exorcising ghosts from a field.--Witchcraft.--The witchfinder or 'Ojah,'--Influence of fear.--Snake bites.--How to cure them.--How to discover a thief.--Ghosts and their habits.--The 'Haddick' or native bone-setter.--Cruelty to animals by natives.

Our annual race meet.--The arrivals.--The camps.--The 'ordinary,'--The course.--'They're off.'--The race.--The steeple-chase.--Incidents of the meet.--The ball.

Pig-sticking in India.--Varieties of boar.--Their size and height. --Ingenious mode of capture by the natives.--The 'Batan' or buffalo herd.--Pigs charging.--Their courage and ferocity.--Destruction of game.--A close season for game.

Kuderent jungle.--Charged by a pig.--The biter bit.--'Mac' after the big boar.--The horse for pig-sticking.--The line of beaters.--The boar breaks.--'Away! Away!'--First spear.--Pig-sticking at Peeprah.--The old 'lungra' or cripple.--A boar at bay.--Hurrah for pig-sticking!

The sal forests.--The jungle goddess.--The trees in the jungle. --Appearance of the forests.--Birds.--Varieties of parrots.--A 'beat' in the forest.--The 'shekarry.'--Mehrman Singh and his gun.--The Banturs, a jungle tribe of wood-cutters.--Their habits.--A village feast.--We beat for deer.--Habits of the spotted deer.--Waiting for the game. --Mehrman Singh gets drunk.--Our bag.--Pea-fowl and their habits.--How to shoot them.--Curious custom of the Nepaulese.--How Juggroo was tricked, and his revenge.

The leopard.--How to shoot him.--Gallant encounter with a wounded one.--Encounter with a leopard in a Dak bungalow.--Pat shoots two leopards.--Effects of the Express bullet.--The 'Sirwah Purrul,' or annual festival of huntsmen.--The Hindoo ryot.--Rice-planting and harvest.--Poverty of the ryot.--His apathy.--Village fires.--Want of sanitation.

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