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Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter By: James Inglis (1845-1908) |
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SPORT AND WORK ON THE NEPAUL FRONTIER
OR
TWELVE YEARS SPORTING REMINISCENCES OF AN INDIGO PLANTER
By "MAORI"
1878
[Note: Some words in this book have a macron over a vowel. A macron
is a punctuation mark ( ) and is represented herein as [=a], [=e]
or [=o].]
PREFACE. I went home in 1875 for a few months, after some twelve years' residence
in India. What first suggested the writing of such a book as this, was
the amazing ignorance of ordinary Indian life betrayed by people at
home. The questions asked me about India, and our daily life there,
showed in many cases such an utter want of knowledge, that I thought,
surely there is room here for a chatty, familiar, unpretentious book
for friends at home, giving an account of our every day life in India,
our labours and amusements, our toils and relaxations, and a few
pictures of our ordinary daily surroundings in the far, far East. Such then is the design of my book. I want to picture to my readers
Planter Life in the Mofussil, or country districts of India; to tell
them of our hunting, shooting, fishing, and other amusements; to
describe our work, our play, and matter of fact incidents in our daily
life; to describe the natives as they appear to us in our intimate
every day dealings with them; to illustrate their manners, customs,
dispositions, observances and sayings, so far as these bear on our own
social life. I am no politician, no learned ethnologist, no sage theorist. I simply
try to describe what I have seen, and hope to enlist the attention and
interest of my readers, in my reminiscences of sport and labour, in the
villages and jungles on the far off frontier of Nepaul. I have tried to express my meaning as far as possible without Anglo Indian
and Hindustani words; where these have been used, as at times they could
not but be, I have given a synonymous word or phrase in English, so that
all my friends at home may know my meaning. I know that my friends will be lenient to my faults, and even the
sternest critic, if he look for it, may find some pleasure and profit in
my pages. JAS. INGLIS.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. Province of Behar. Boundaries. General description. District of
Chumparun. Mooteeharree. The town and lake. Native houses. The
Planters' Club. Legoulie. CHAPTER II. My first charge. How we get our lands. Our home farm. System of
farming. Collection of rents. The planter's duties. CHAPTER III. How to get our crop. The 'Dangurs.' Farm servants and their duties.
Kassee Rai. Hoeing. Ploughing. 'Oustennie.' Coolies at Work.
Sowing. Difficulties the plant has to contend with. Weeding. CHAPTER IV. Manufacture of Indigo. Loading the vats. Beating. Boiling, straining,
and pressing. Scene in the Factory. Fluctuation of produce. Chemistry
of Indigo. CHAPTER V. Parewah factory. A 'Bobbery Pack.' Hunt through a village after
a cat. The pariah dog of India. Fate of 'Pincher.' Rampore
hound. Persian greyhound. Caboolee dogs. A jackal hunt. Incidents
of the chase. CHAPTER VI. Fishing in India. Hereditary trades. The boatmen and fishermen of
India. Their villages. Nets. Modes of fishing. Curiosities relating
thereto. Catching an alligator with a hook. Exciting capture.
Crocodiles. Shooting an alligator. Death of the man eater. CHAPTER VII. Native superstitions. Charming a bewitched woman. Exorcising ghosts
from a field. Witchcraft. The witchfinder or 'Ojah,' Influence of
fear. Snake bites. How to cure them. How to discover a thief. Ghosts
and their habits. The 'Haddick' or native bone setter. Cruelty to
animals by natives. CHAPTER VIII. Our annual race meet. The arrivals. The camps. The 'ordinary,' The
course. 'They're off.' The race. The steeple chase. Incidents of
the meet. The ball. CHAPTER IX. Pig sticking in India. Varieties of boar. Their size and height.
Ingenious mode of capture by the natives... Continue reading book >>
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