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any animal in the jungle. Probable
cause of their often attacking people. Illustration of this.
Attacked by an unwounded and unprovoked bear.
If suddenly attacked by an animal at close quarters rush towards it.
Wanton attacks made by bears on people. Approaching caves and
getting bears out of them.

Great value of stink balls.
How not to attempt to get a bear out of a cave. Am caught by a hill fire.
Amusing incident at a bear's cave. A man wounded.
Value of having a good dog when out bear shooting. Am knocked
down by a bear.
Panthers. Should be hunted with dogs.
Panther probably feigning death. A man killed.
The wild boar the most daring animal in the jungles. Illustration in
point.
The great power of the wild boar. My manager charged by one.
Boars make shelters for themselves in the rains. The flesh of the boar
not a safe food.
Jungle dogs. Said by natives to kill tigers.
The use, said by the natives to be made by the dogs, of their acrid urine.
A cross between the jungle and the domestic dog.
Curious incident connected with jungle dogs.
Great increase of jungle dogs. A reward should be offered for their
destruction.
Many reported deaths from snake bites probably poisoning cases.
Reasons in support of this view. From 1855 to 1893 only one death
from snake bite in my neighbourhood.
The cobra not an aggressive snake. Unless hurt or provoked will
probably never bite. Illustrations in support of this view.
Snakes keep a good look out. Tigers and snakes run away.
Many snakes are harmless, and some useful.
Wild animals probably require to be taught by their parents to dread
man.
A tame stag. A tame flying squirrel.
A tame hornbill.
Probable cause of pets not caring to rejoin their wild congeners.
Some remarks on guns. The Paradox.

CHAPTER VI.
--BISON SHOOTING.
Unless molested the bison never attacks man.
An attempt to photograph a solitary bull.

Description of the bison.
Height of bull bison. Account of an interesting friendship between a
tame sambur deer and a bull bison.
Bison are often attacked by tigers.
Interesting instance of a tiger stalking up to a solitary bull.
The tiger and bull knocked over right and left.
Precautions that should be taken when following up a wounded bull.
A tracker killed by a bull. Following a wounded bull.
Stalking up to a herd. The value of peppermint lozenges.
How a wounded bull may be lost.
The value of a dog when following up a wounded bull.
Wonderful bounding power of the bison. A narrow escape from a
charging bull.
Special Act required for preservation of cow bison.

CHAPTER VII.
--GOLD.
The earliest tradition as regards gold in Mysore.
Explanation of gold being found on the ears of corn. Lieutenant
Warren's investigations in 1800.
Native methods of procuring gold by washing and mining.
Depths to which old native pits were sunk.
Probable cause of the cessation of mining at considerable depths.
In 1873 leave first given to a European to mine for gold. Remarkable
absence in Mysore of old records or inscriptions relating to gold
mining.
Mr. Lavelle in 1873 applied for right to mine in Kolar.
Of the mines subsequently started all practically closed in 1882, except
the Mysore mine, which began to get gold in end of 1884.
Had the Mysore Company not persevered the Kolar field would
probably have been closed. Depths to which mines have been sunk. The
Champion Lode.
General description of the Kolar field. Notes by a lady resident.
Life on the field. Gardening. Visitors from England.
The volunteers at the mines. Sport near the field.
Servants and supplies. Elevation and the climate. A healthy one.

Mining and the extraction of gold.
The rates of wages. No advances given to labourers.
Expenditure by the companies in Mysore in wages. Consequential
results therefrom on the prosperity of the people.
Measures which the State should take to encourage the opening of new
mines.
Royalty on mines that are not paying should be reduced or abolished.
Act required to check gold stealing.
Some summary process should be adopted to check gold thefts.
Want of water on the field. Measures proposed for conserving it.
The want of tree planting. Other auriferous tracts in Mysore. Mr. R.
Bruce Foote's report.
Brief analysis of Mr. Bruce Foote's report on the various auriferous
tracts. The central group of auriferous rocks.
The west-central group.
The western group. Expects that many other old abandoned workings
will be discovered in the jungly tracts.
An inexhaustible supply of beautiful porphyry near Seringapatam and
close to a railway.

CHAPTER VIII.
--CASTE.
Valuable to rural populations.
My inquiry limited to its rural and practical effects on life.
Its moral effects as regards the connection of the sexes.
Its value