A mile of easy walking brought us to the rough jungly cliffs, seamed with transverse nullahs, narrow and steep, which bordered the river.
It is now chiefly found in the north-west districts, and it is carefully cherished by the "Jungly Sahib" and his myrmidons.
We crossed jungly gullies, on whose muddy ground were impressed the feet of lions and leopards, and finally entered a tract of acacia thorn, which was a sore annoyance, and out of this last we emerged into the millet fields of Mbiri.
The next day left the track and struck through the huge towering forest and jungly undergrowth by compass.
Then I noticed that across the road was a jungly thicket; it was not open ground, as it was on the side we had come from, and I thought if we could reach that we might perhaps lose the gentleman, or he would lose us.
They will hardly be likely to trouble us here, but in that jungly bit behind it wouldn't be at all safe to rest like this.
Imagine a wide level plain, with one uniform dull covering of rice stubble, save where in the centre a mound rises some two acres in extent, covered with long thatching grass, a few scrubby acacia bushes, and other jungly brushwood.
There is a most fatal miasma all through the year, less during the hot months, but very bad during and immediately after the annual rains; and in September and October nearly every soul in the jungly tracts is smitten with fever.
Boggley tries to frighten me with tales of dâk-bungalows and jungly cooking, but I won't be frightened; I am looking forward to it all too much.
Autolycus appears accompanied by the jungly cook, bearing a plate of what under happier circumstances might have been porridge.
The name Jharia means jungly or savage, and is commonly applied to the oldest residents, but the Jharia Telis are the highest local subcaste.
The Jhare or jungly [17] Kunbis are the oldest immigrants and have no doubt an admixture of Gond blood.
His almost nude figure, wild, tangled hair innocent of such inventions as brush or comb, lithe wiry limbs and jungly and uncivilised appearance, mark him out at once.
The other Dhakars refuse to marry or eat with them, and it is clear from the custom of thatching the Raja's hut that they are a primitive and jungly branch of the caste.
In the rear a deep ravine, junglywith thick undergrowth, then the winding snag-strewn Patea River.
They were far in the tangled, jungly forest, without a guide, for they had killed their prisoners.
There was no Gatun Lake and no Culebra Cut; there was only the beautiful, tricky Chagres River, flowing between its high jungly banks and divided, above Gorgona, where the Obispo entered.
Now the trail entered another jungly forest, and it certainly led down instead of up, as if indeed they had crossed the divide.
Elsewhere the Gonds are gradually adopting the Hindu methods of cultivation, but their land is generally in hilly and jungly tracts and of poor quality.
A small caste in the Bastar State who appear to be a mixture of Gonds and the lower Telugu castes, the name meaning 'The jungly Telugus.
On one occasion a bear was reported on a jungly hill about a mile from my bungalow, and as I was young and inexperienced then, I said that I would lie on the ground till I heard the beaters, and then stand behind a tree.
Then I ran on to the next open break in the jungly ravine, and again got up into a tree.
But as the tiger did not charge out, I saw that he was probably off, and at once ran down the side of the jungly ravine to head him, and at the first break in the jungle got up into a tree.
On the following day I assembled some natives and beat a narrow jungly ravine below my house, at a distance of about, fifty yards from it, and there came out, not the boar, but his wife with a family of five or six small pigs.
Immediately below him ran a jungly ravine, and behind him the hill rose sharply.
As it is impossible in jungly districts to ride the wild boar, he is invariably shot, except when, in the monsoon rains, he is occasionally speared.
The herd, bull included, then entered the jungly ravine, and presently reappeared a little further down and on the right of the ravine with a calf which had evidently been left in the ravine, and filed along the slope.
No traces of human habitation were to be seen; for a rocky backbone or ridge, running lengthwise of the island, isolated its frequented portion from this jungly half.
There remained only the Elephant's right flank--overlooking the jungly back of the island--and the loftier head parts facing the western sea.
The following account of the Jungly Gau (which is the only one that has been published), is a translation from the splendid folio work of Messrs.
A silence was upon them all, as they moved at a foot's pace through the dense andjungly tangle, mounting ever upwards.
But they were in for it now, and soon the path opened, and before and beneath them lay a network of kloofs covered with a thick, jungly scrub, here and there a rugged krantz shooting up from the waves of foliage.
The units were scattered; no reconnaissance had been made of the ground to their front; that ground was junglyand blind; it would be impossible to get orders round the whole Division in time to let the junior ranks study them.
His chief remaining ghost inhabits the jungly bit of country between Anafarta Ova and the foothills.
The signal of distress happened to be heard by two strollers in the walk alongside, divided only from the tank-path by a thin jungly brake, through which the gleam of the water was visible.
About noon we debouched through the mountain pass into a country of openings--small prairies, bounded by jungly forests, and interspersed with timber islands.
A mutual want had forced them to their present attitude of peace, though it was more like a truce between the lion and tiger which have met in an avenue of the jungly forest, and stand eyeing one another.
This march, which declines from the Kingani a little, leads through rolling, jungly ground, full of game, to the tributary stream Mgeta.
In former days Kirengue was inhabited, and we reasonably hoped to find some supplies for the jungly march before us.
In Sindh and in the more arid and barren parts of the Punjab and Rajpootana on the one hand, or in the more humid and jungly localities of Lower Bengal on the other, it occurs, if at all, merely as a seasonal straggler.
I found this the Common Shrike in the hilly jungly tracts in Southern Mirzapore, but I do not know whether it breeds there.
There was a belt of open ground--a sort of meadow upon the side opposite to where they were seated, which was backed by a jungly forest.
