The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R.
They edged their way through to the left leaving swathes of gored and trodden sambur in their wake, and went thundering off on another line of retreat, caroming into a herd of aurochs, which fought them off and punished them murderously.
But the hordes of the sambur were behind, pressing the tribe onwards, and straight ahead was the wooded hill, dense with foliage, luring with its promise of safe and convenient shelter.
By this time, however, the alarm had spread through the rest of the sambur ranks.
But presently the whole colossal array brought itself to a halt, got itself turned to the left, and went thundering off on the trail of the sambur remnants.
First, for instance, he saw a herd of black buffalo overtake the sambur host and dash heavily into its rear ranks.
With many misgivings, he led the way directly towards it, swerving out across the path of a vast but straggling horde of sambur deer which seemed almost exhausted.
The frightened sambur closed up, instead of scattering, and the impetus of the buffalo presently spent itself upon the unresisting mass.
Several writers have noticed that a stag samburor bull nylghao (apparently it is always a male) occasionally attaches himself to a herd of bison, and that this follower is invariably the wariest and most watchful beast in the herd.
Both Eld’s deer and sambur may be shot in this way, and the writer has been told that hares, and occasionally deer, will allow themselves to be approached till they can be speared or knocked on the head with sticks.
The stags are reddish brown, their hair coarse and thick, their tails rather long and exactly of the sambur type, their ears round, not pointed like a spotted deer.
A samburhas a fine head and so has a swamp deer, but neither approaches in beauty to a barasingh.
Though sambur occasionally throw out abnormal tines, they usually carry only three antlers on each horn--a long brow antler and two on top.
The light bullet of an Express is so easily turned by a small twig that it is absolutely untrustworthy among heavy timber, and it is for this reason that the writer includes sambur with the larger animals.
The blood soon ceased and we began to wonder if the sambur had not been merely scratched.
The foothills on which we were camped are low wooded ridges rising out of open cultivated valleys, which often run into the jungle-filled ravines in which the sambur sleep.
When the sambur was brought to camp a regular orgy was held by our servants, mafus, and dozens of villagers who gathered to buy, beg, or steal some of the blood.
Without giving me an opportunity to reach a position in front of them, they began to work up the hill, and I had a fleeting glimpse of a sambur silhouetted against the sky as it dashed over the summit.
On the second day they put up a sambur which ran within a hundred feet of us but was absolutely invisible in the high grass.
Two sambur had skirted the edge of the wood less than one hundred yards away, but he had missed with both shots.
There were undoubtedly several sambur in the vicinity of our camp but they fed entirely during the night and spent the day in such thick cover that it was impossible to drive them out except with good beaters or dogs.
We were certain to reach a tropical region farther south and the fact that there were a few sambur skins for sale in the market offered slight encouragement.
Both knew that Ossaroo meant by "Samboo," the great deer or stag known to Europeans as the sambur deer.
The sambur deer is one of the most distinguished of the deer tribe.
The others did not join him in this singular viand, although the shikarree assured them that tiger-beef was far superior to the venison of the sambur deer.
Ossaroo, especially, declared that there was not the slightest danger in attacking him, armed as they were; not so much as there would be in an encounter with a sambur stag.
Gone are the hairpins of sambur bone--an inestimable treasure in the eyes of the true hill Khond.
The hairpins referred to above are made fromsambur (deer: Cervus unicolor) bones, and stuck in the hair of male Kondhs.
We had been driving jungle for sambur deer in the Balaghat district, and instead of posting myself upon a mucharn, or occupying any fixed position, I remained upon my elephant Hurri Ram.
If it should be a wapiti, or sambur stag, the bullet should also remain within, retained in all cases under the skin upon the side opposite to that of entrance.
The first layer of material was the soft but thick buff leather of sambur deer.
This grand dog was ultimately killed in a fight with an immense boar, and his name will reappear in connection with the sambur deer, misnamed the "elk," throughout Ceylon.
I was in hope that the sambur stag that I had heard bark in this direction might be still within the drive, but the beaters were closing up, and the greater portion of the line had already emerged upon either side of the acute angle.
It struck me that the sambur had got the wind of an enemy, otherwise she would not have rushed back in such sudden haste; she could not have scented me, as I was 10 or 12 feet above the ground, and the breeze was aslant .
A large hide of the sambur deer, well cured and greased so as to be soft and pliable, should, invariably protect the belly of the elephant, and the flanks under the fore legs, from the friction of the girthing rope.
During the last drive I had distinctly heard the bark of a sambur deer about half a mile in my rear, which would be between me and the direction we were about to take.
Presently I heard a rustle in the jungle, and I observed the legs of a sambur deer, which, having neared the edge, now halted to listen to the beaters before venturing to break from the dense covert.
They have one disadvantage, however, as Sambur leather soaks up and holds water more than other leather.
He was a planter on the Nilgiris, and the brother of a friend of mine, and was in the habit of going out at the end of his day's work with a book and a gun, and seating himself on the hillside to look out for sambur deer.
When thus led out to graze thesambur sometimes remained behind, but seemed to have no difficulty in finding the bull even though it had been taken to a considerable distance.
The history of this animal, and more especially of the warm friendship that sprung up between it and a doe sambur deer, is extremely interesting.
As the beat was drawing to a close, I heard a sambur deer belling at the head of a ravine, about a few hundred yards from the termination of the jungle we were beating.
Account of an interesting friendship between a tame sambur deer and a bull bison.
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