page_title: Drawings by Douglas Hamilton
section_title: Galleries of 95 drawings
hierarchical_section_title: Drawings by Douglas Hamilton / Records of Sport / Galleries of 95 drawings
caption_attribution_description: Douglas Hamilton, Sambar bucks &amp; does
context_page_description: There are at least two hundred and twelve detailed drawings by Douglas Hamilton of South Indian landscapes, game animals and forestry operations. Eighty seven of Hamilton's careful drawings of the Annaimalai Hills, Palani Hills and Shevaroy Hills are in the British Library, ninety six drawings were published in his autobiography, Records of Sport in Southern India... and an additional thirty one were published in Forests and Gardens of South India.
  Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Hamilton was a British Indian Army officer, gazetted to the 21st Regiment of the Madras Native Infantry from 1837 to 1871. Hamilton was a well known forester, surveyor and illustrator of the early British hill stations in South India and a famous sportsman, shikari, big-game hunter and trophy collector. He was an acute observer of nature and a gentleman.
  Though executed only in pen and ink or pencil, these drawings have artistic merit due to the artists skillful use of hatching and stippling to achieve realistic texture, shading and perspective. Hamilton's illustration of subjects and backgrounds that are unfamiliar to most people, creates initial interest in his drawings.
context_section_description: - Portrait of Major Douglas Hamilton, 1870. . . Frontispiece
  - Preface art...v:
  PREFACE
  The Pillar Rocks, Pulney Mountains . . . xiii
  Water Fall near the Village of Killiyur . . .viii
  View in the Valley of Perumbookarnal, Pulney Mountains...xv
  Lake of Yercaud, Shervaroy Hills ...xviii
  The Upper Falls, near Muddikull, Bababoopen Hills...xxxvi
  CHAPTER I. - Shooting Antelope
  Stalking Antelope with Pony...1
  Spearing the Antelope...5
  The Silver Grey Fox (Canis bengalensis)...7
  Oh, Great King, Don't be Angry...9
  Cheeta Stalking Antelope...10
  The Kill...11
  The Mountain Antelope...14
  CHAPTER II. - Wolves, Wild Dogs, Boars, Mongoose, Small Game Shooting
  Wolves Watching Antelope...19
  Wild Dogs (Cuon rutilans)...25
  Mungoose and Cobra...28
  Rather a Stopper...31
  A Brave Boar...33
  The Lesser Florikin (Syphcolides auritus)...36
  The Bengal Florican (Spyheoides bengaleiuis)...36
  CHAPTER III. - Sporting Trip to the Dandilly Forest
  The Bungalow, Dandilly Forest...39 
  "I Just saw His Head and Horns"...44
  "Emam Took up the Track"...47
  An Unexpected Meeting...50
  CHAPTER IV. - Singapore, Java and Labuan
  The Wart Hog of Java (Sus verrucosus)...59
  The Smero from Paparawang...62
  Birdseye View of the Crater of the Bromo...68
  Outline of the Smeroe and the Bromo...68
  Lake of Ranio Clakka...72
  Principal Figure in the Temple of Sookoo...77
  Stone Slabs in the Temple of Sookoo, showing the manufacture of the Kriss ....78 . to face
  After Deer, Bandoeng...84
  Curious Hat of the Rusa Deer in Java...89
  The Big Boar of Labuan (Sus barbatus)...95
  Nests of a Diminutive Bee found at Labuan...96
  CHAPTER V. - Bears
  He tried hard to get at us through the Bamboos...99
  "He was upon me at once"...104
  "I didn't do it, Ma!"...107
  I could Hear the Bones Breaking...110
  CHAPTER VI. - Ibex Shooting on the Nielgherries,  Annamullais, and Pulnies 
  The Ibex (The Nielgherry Wild Goat), Male and Female...111
  The Ibex Hills, Annamullies...117
  My First Ibex...120
  The Hut, Pykara...122
  The Old Saddle-back...124
  I take off my Shoes...127
  A Close Shave...129
  The Ibex Stalker...135
  CHAPTER VII. - Elephants
  The Knowing Old Engineer...142
  Diagram for Elephant Shots...145
  I try to drive him Home...149
  Charging a Bull Bison, 20 September 1856...151
  The Tables Turned...154
  We held on like "Grim Death"...154
  Help ! Help ! !...155
  We Secure him at last...155
  Heels over Head...157
  The First Shot at the Great Tusker...159
  The Death of the Great Tusker of Hassanoor...160
  "BAFFLED" (for description see Chapter VIII)...164
  CHAPTER VIII. - Tigers, Leopards etc.
  Tigers and Sambur...173
  The Cheeky Rascal...185
  A Most Magnificent Bound...188
  The Vultures Bring Him Out...189
  Rather a Surprise...191
  The Mid-Day Siesta...192
  I staring at him, and He Glaring and Growling...197
  He stopped to look at me...200
  What I saw one Morning...202
  He stood to Listen205
  Face to Face...209
  I could have Slapped its Face...220
  The Jungle Cat (Felis chaus)...223
  It will Sit and Watch on a Crag...224
  The Black Leopard...225
  The Black Leopard— His Death...226
  The Leopard's Ride...228
  Leopard on Bough...232
  My Last Leopard...235
  CHAPTER IX. - The Bison of Southern India
  Head of a Bull Bison...236
  Skull and Horns of Bison...238
  I Plunged My Hunting Knife Into His Side...243
  A Big Bull Bison staring at me...245
  A Tall Shot...246
  Not the pleasantest Moment of my Life...248
  A dead Bull...248
  CHAPTER X. -
  The Sambur buck and doe...252
  Head and Horns of the big Antler Stag...258
  The Unheeded Warning...262
  His Last Leap...265
  Puzzled...268
  Snob and the Stag...269
  "Now Bounding into the Air"...271
  The Deer Stalker...278
  The Axis or Spotted Deer...279
  The Jungle Sheep...280
caption: Sambar Bucks and Does...252
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