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A Bairagi or Vaishnava religious mendicant much likes to carry a tiger-skin on his body if he can afford one; and a Brahman will have the skin of a black-buck spread in the room where he performs his devotions.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

A white black-buck was killed by a friend in Kattiawar, India, in 1897, and I have a stuffed specimen of buff blackbird, caught some years ago in the vicarage garden at Woodhall: the parent birds having buff young two seasons in succession.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

The black-buck is stalked through the bullock, and Man through jealousy.

Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900

But one man struck at a Sahib with a fakir's buck's horn '(Kim meant the conjoined black-buck horns, which are a fakir's sole temporal weapon) --' the blood came.

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

But what does distance matter; it's our first day's shooting in India -- duck to-day, black-buck to-morrow, then sambhur, perhaps, and who knows, the royal procession may not account for all the tigers! and I begin to have a feeling that if one came within a fair distance, and did not look very fierce, I'd be inclined to lowse off my great heavy double-barrelled 450 cordite express and see if anything happened.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

The territory of the Rao of Baraon lay within ten miles of the bridge; and Findlayson and Hitchcock had spent a fair portion of their scanty leisure in playing billiards and shooting black-buck with the young man.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

Give me the little sharp rifle that I use for black-buck; it is in the case yonder. '

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

In their hands were either iron-tongs, with loose clattering ring, or a yak's tail, or the three-ribbed horn of a black-buck.

Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

On the plains between and adjacent to the Ganges and the Jumna, for two thousand years herds of black-buck, or sasin antelope, have roamed over cultivated fields so thickly garnished with human beings that to-day the rifle-shooting sportsman stands in hourly peril of bagging a five-hundred-rupee native every time he fires at an antelope.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

Anantnath is the falcon or bear, and his tree the holy Asoka; [280] that of Santnath is the black-buck or Indian antelope, and his tree the _tun_ or cedar; [281] the symbol of Nemnath is the conch shell

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894