As he nears a village, the farm-servant in charge of that particular bit of cultivation, comes out with a low salaam, to report progress, or complain that so-and-so is not working up his field as he ought to do. In the evening we ride over the zeraats again, give orders for the morrow's work, consume a little tobacco, have an early dinner, and after a little reading, retire soon to bed to dream of far away friends and the happy memories of home. In Bengal they are called _Nikaree_, and in some parts _Baeharee_, from the Persian word for a boat. The great difference, however, is in the shape of the skull; that of the black fellow being high over the airline tickets bone, and not very long in proportion to height, while the skull of the grey boar is never very high, but is long, and receding in proportion to height. Until all true sportsmen in India unite in this matter, the evil will increase, and bye-and-bye there will be no animals left to afford sport of any kind. It has a grating, discordant cry, which it utters at intervals as it sits pluming its black feathers above the pool. Pat, who is so well versed in jungle life and its traditions, told us of a curious moveable feast which the natives of these parts hold annually, generally in March or April, which is called the _Sirwah Purrub_.
He is wholly unfit for self-government; utterly opposed to honest, truthful, stable government at all.