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Updated: June 1, 2025
The moon is up all nature still; the cow, again on her legs, is restless, and evidently frightened. Oh! reader, even if you have the soul of a Shikaree, I despair of being able to convey in words a tithe of the sensations of that solitary vigil: a night like that is to be enjoyed but seldom a red-letter day in one's existence.
You simply told me that you had been able to render some service to the Burman who travelled down with you, but such service might have been merely that you assisted him when he was in want, bound up a wound, or any other small matter. "Now we find that you performed an act of singular courage, an act that even the oldest shikaree would have reason to be proud of.
Jye Sing was a little better informed, for he told me confidentially, one day, he had seen a gentleman at Subathoo actually kill quail flying with small shot. His occupation had been that of findal, or porter, to some families at Simla. Two months' training turned him out, not only one of the most intelligent, but pluckiest Shikaree I ever had.
"Yes, sahib, I have," briskly replied the shikaree, at the same time drawing a roll of hempen twist out of the breast of his cotton shirt, and holding it out towards the young hunter. "Long enough, it is," said Caspar, taking the cord; which the next moment he attached around the neck of the flask.
The phrase "out for blood" had taken on its literal primitive meaning. The second rounding-up was less simple than the first, because the tiger had more choice of hiding places; but again our shikaree displayed his wonderful intuition, and in about an hour we had ringed the creature in. That this was to be the end was evident from the electrical purposefulness which animated the old hands.
To him they seemed like old friends who had come to visit him in his prison; and though it never occurred to the shikaree, that they could be in any way instrumental in obtaining his release, still the impression produced was one of a pleasant nature.
Karl poised the creature upon the stump of its tail; and then, lifting with all his strength so as to raise it several feet from the ground he gave forth the signal at the highest pitch of his voice. At the same instant, Caspar and the shikaree ran backward tightening the rope as they went; and like a vast vulture with outspread wings, the bird soared silently upward into the air.
To have been, at your age, a peasant boy, an English school boy, a shikaree, an officer in the Peishwa's court, a confidential agent of Nana Furnuwees, and now a British officer, is indeed wonderful. It speaks volumes for your intelligence and discretion." "I cannot take the whole credit to myself, sir. I had two good friends.
The shikaree rose from his seat; and going into the hovel, returned presently bringing back with him a long shrivelled object, which any one could tell to be a dried eel-skin. There were many like it inside: for they had carefully preserved the skins of the eels they had caught, induced to do so by a sort of presentiment, that some day they might find a use for them.
The bit of jungle through which they had passed would suffice to screen the rogue, said he: adding at the same time a piece of intelligence derived from his shikaree experience: that an elephant, large as it is, can hide in a slight cover with wonderful cunning; that its sagacity enables it to select the best place for concealment; and that, although it neither crouches nor squats, it contrives, by keeping perfectly still added to the circumstance of its being a shapeless sort of mass ofttimes to elude the eye of the most vigilant hunter.
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