The marsh and jungle swarmed with peacocks, jungle-fowl, and wild-fowl of all sorts, affording glorious sport; and, besides the smaller kinds of deer, several specimens occurred of a magnificent species of stag with twelve-tyned horns, called _baru-singa_ -- apparently allied to the _sambur_ and _rusa_ of the Dekkan. ❋ Various (N/A)
One might have fancied this was the encampment of newly-come invaders, were it not for the larger villages that are overgrown with thickets and altogether swallowed up again in the wilderness, and for the deserted temples that are found rent asunder by the roots of trees and the ancient embankments that hold water only for the drinking of the sambur deer .... ❋ Unknown (1906)
I was fortunate enough to have one of these in my service, and to no sporting scenes in life can I look back with greater pleasure than when I was able, with my trusted native follower, to spend delightful mornings and evenings, and at certain times whole days, in stalking bears, bison, and sambur in the Western Mysore mountains. ❋ Unknown (1875)
Account of an interesting friendship between a tame sambur deer and a bull bison. ❋ Unknown (1875)
Amongst the graminivorous animals I may mention the _gavoeus gaurus_, commonly called bison (a name to which I shall adhere as it is the one in common use), the sambur deer, the spotted deer, the hog deer, and the barking deer or jungle sheep. ❋ Unknown (1875)
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. ❋ Unknown (1875)
It is difficult to believe that big game in remote spots can perceive whether a man means to harm them or not, but it is remarkable that when on his way to the jungle alluded to, the photographer passed two sambur deer in the long grass, and at no great distance away, and saw them still lying there on his return. ❋ Unknown (1875)
But it is natural that all wild animals should become more dangerous the more they are hunted, and, rather to my amusement, my old shikari, to whom I have previously alluded, complained in a querulous and aggrieved tone that every animal -- even the sambur deer -- seemed to charge one nowadays. ❋ Unknown (1875)
He had evidently been stalking the sambur, which had uttered the note of alarm I had heard, and no doubt seeing that there was something at the edge of the jungle, had crawled to the edge, and there lain down within ten or twelve yards of me. ❋ Unknown (1875)
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. ❋ Unknown (1875)
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. ❋ Unknown (1875)
When thus led out to graze the sambur sometimes remained behind, but seemed to have no difficulty in finding the bull even though it had been taken to a considerable distance. ❋ Unknown (1875)
About a week afterwards a young doe sambur, which was being pursued by jungle dogs, rushed into one of the labourer's huts and was secured. ❋ Unknown (1875)
This is the description of the common sambur deer (_Cervus hippelaphus_) best known to Europeans, and among Anglo-Indian sportsmen called "stag"; but it is to be observed that in different parts of Asia there are many different species and varieties of the sambur. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The sambur deer is one of the most distinguished of the deer tribe. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
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. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Both knew that Ossaroo meant by "Samboo," the great deer or stag known to Europeans as the sambur deer. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Had it been a bullet that was in his gun he might have done so; but he knew that his piece was only loaded with shot, and shot -- even though they were "buckshot" -- might not penetrate the hard thick skull of a stag so strong as the sambur. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
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. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
They now dragged the carcass up to the light of the fire, and it was just as much as the three of them could manage -- for the sambur deer is one of the largest animals of its kind, and the one that had fallen into their hands was a fine old buck, with a pair of immense antlered horns, of which no doubt in his lifetime he had been excessively proud. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
