The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-09
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climate, y is the answer most men will max,
when asked If they did not enjoy India for tn,
sport, if for nothing else.
But there is one part Of British India where
you may enjoy fine sport in the midst Of mag
niicent scenery and in a splendid climate fol
nine months of the year, and that is the Hima.
Iayan hills, between the attitudes of Eve thou.
sand and ten thousand feet; below FIVE thou
sand 1t is too hot at times, and above ten
thousand it is equally too cold.
Ihad the good fortune, in one respect to get
liver complaint whilst hunting Tantia Topee
amongst the jungles Of Central India, and
was sent by medical board for nine months
TO the hills--Nynee Tai (or the lake of the
deity "Nynee') was my headquarters; but
after two months recruiting my strength
there, departed on four months ''shikar-
dour," or sporting tour, towards Tibet and
Ladak. To those accustomed to shooting in
Scotland, where you may bang away all day,
and every day, the change is very great Here,
in the Himalayas, you must work very hard,
and walk very far to get shot at all, one day
in week being more than the usual proper
tion of sport in such shooting. r
Some Of the best bear hunting ever had
was in company with the old Kumaon raiah, a
Ghoorkha king whose territory had been an
(when he was quite boy), and who has ever
since lived quietlyin his own capital on pension
of six hundred pounds per annum from Govern
ment IL is remarkable instance of the apti-
tude of the English for conquest, that they
should have taken by force of arms this
ancient kingdom of Kufnaon, as large as
Wales, and held it peaceably ever since, though
it is not garrisoned by single British soldier,
the only troops in it being generally two bat
talions of its own people in the pay of the
English. When was there the troops were
the First Ku1naonees and the Fourth Ghoork-
has, with three English officers in each regi-
ment-dressed in their own national costumes,
with the ancestral weapon, ''the Kookra," by
their sides, manufactured though of the best
English steel after an ancient Ghoorkha model.
The only thing that marked them as British
troops was the Union Jack which they carried
as their standard.
had made the acquaintance of the Kumaon
rajah by having been fortunate enough to re-
ieve him from very unpleasant position. l
was out shooting pheasants in a rhododendron
forest, when heard loud shouts, and on has
tening to the spot found the Kumaon Rajah
up tree, his gun lying on the ground, which
he had evidently dropped in climbing; and at
the foot of the tree a. large black she-bear with
broken fore leg, who could not climb the
tree, but was scratching and snarling in a
most unpleasant way. relieved him by
heart as 1t stood on its hind legs snarling at
the rajah; since which he had always sent
word to me when he heard of any "shihar,"
and, of course, he always got the first infor-
nation from the country people, who knew
his devotion to sport. He had good collec-
ton of English guns all made by "Daw."
Six hundred pounds year for native in the
hills, without any court or followers, is more
than six thousand year to country gentle
man in England @
/ was lying in the verandah of my
bungalow after tiffin one day, when the
rajah's head shikaree, "Omrah Dean" ap-
peared, and salaaming low, said, in the hill
patois: -''The rajah, sahib, has heard of three
'reis' (bear) at Baghesur," mentioning viii
lage on a river about twelve miles off, she
starts at sundown to sleep there, and attack
them in the morning, and he hopes your royal
highness (the usual way of addressing English
in the hills) will accompany"
"Good, " said, 81 will be at Baghesur at
ten this evening""
At half-past nine, as was slowly jogging
on my tattoo into the village, noticed a COM
motion about the huts, and as soon as they
caught sight of me several of the inhabitants
run up, saying:--"O master o doctor hurry
to save the man who has been torn by bear
and is dying,"s (they think all English are
doctors; and if any Englishman travels far
into the mountains he will find at his tent-door
districts assembled-goitre, fever, and rheu-
matism are the chief disorders).
tWhere is he Y' said |. "Down by your
tents, sahib,' said they, pointing to the river
where mine and therajah's tents, which we had
sent on, were pitched Ihastened on and found
an unfortunate hillman lying on his face in a
fainting state, his back torn to pieces, covered
with blood, and his friends round him plaster
ing his wounds over with coW-dung, which is
their sovereign remedy for all cuts. ascer-
tanned that the man was suffering from loss
of blood in an European, / should have been
afraid OF Inflammation, but in the natives it is
never to be feared, owing, suppose, to a low
diet and cooler blood. l therefore admins
tered brandy, and with a sponge and warm
water washed all the muck and dirt off his
back. AS he,was too i'll to be carried home, /
laid him. down under the fly of my tent, and
told his wife to keep wet clothes on his back
all night. A little opium and brandy gave him
aquiet night, and the next morning the wounds
were showing signs of healing. His wife told
Omrah Deem, the rajah's shikaree, how it hap
pened; and it appears it was one of the bears
we were after. The man, coming home from
working one evening, espied bear feasting on
his honey Without moments thought, he
rushed at the animal and began to belabor it
with ''luttie, - heavy bamboo, shod with
iron. which the native hill-men carry. At
first the beast bolted, but on the man following
it. it turned on him; he then ran, and falling
down. the beast clawed his back. His screams
brnnght ont his wife and children, who drove
Abe hear off with stones. The account eheered
Ts mn as sportsmen, showing, Jas 1t did, that