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Updated: June 1, 2025
The old shikaree recognised the noise the moment it reached his ears, and knew perfectly well the sort of instrument that must have been producing it; but he was hindered for a time from proclaiming his knowledge, by surprise, as well as a strong feeling of terror at hearing such a sound in such a place. "By de wheels ob Juggernaut car!" he gasped out. "Can't be can't be; no possible him be here."
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip. The old saw was illustrated in the case of the shikaree while endeavouring to ensnare the storks; though it was not the snare, but the birds that now illustrated the adage.
Malet has mentioned to me that, at one time, you were employed as a shikaree, to keep down the tigers which were doing havoc among the villagers near the top of the Ghauts.
"By de wheeles ob Juggannaut coachee," cried the shikaree, who had been listening, and understood the figurative dialogue; "dat be da goodee plan. Dese stork go back Calcutt surely dey go back. Dey carry letter to Feringhee Sahibs Sahibs dey know we here in prison dey come d'liva we vey dey affer get de letter ha! ha! ha!"
One of the coolies being a "shikaree," or what they call in Ireland a "sportsman," I took him with me, and with another to carry some breakfast, off we started at about five A.M. The ascent at first was so abrupt, that, although in pretty good walking condition by this time, I found myself halting very frequently to admire the prospect.
He was already far stronger than the sons of Ramdass, although these were now young men. Anxious to, at once, exercise his muscles and gain in skill, he now attached himself to a famous shikaree who, seeing the boy's strength and courage, took him as an assistant when he went on excursions among the hills.
The darkish disc visible behind the evergreen leaves could be no other than the body of the deer; and Karl was just about cocking his rifle, to bore it with a bullet, when the click of Caspar's double-barrel sounding ominously in his ear, fortunately conducted to a far different denouement than that fatal finale which was so near having occurred. The signal of the Shikaree.
No, that was not the reason; but simply that Karl more clearly comprehended the danger in which the shikaree was placed. After watching the efforts of the elephant for a short time, Caspar had become convinced that the animal could not reach Ossaroo so long as the latter preserved his balance upon the summit of the rock.
The shikaree had often followed the spoor of wild elephants through the jungles of Bengal, and knew everything about their way of travelling. He was therefore able to tell the others that the rogue had not been browsing as he went for the leaves and twigs showed no signs of his teeth but on the contrary, he had moved forward rapidly, and as if with some special determination.
"Straight trackee. Ah, sahibs!" continued the shikaree, speaking in a low voice and with an air of superstitious terror; "dat animal too wise for dis world; he know too much. I fear him be no elephan' after all, but only de devil, who hab takee elephan' shape. Why he go back there?" "Ah! why, I wonder," inquired Caspar. "Do you think," added he, "it is in the hope of finding us there?
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