30th November: Being Sunday I got up late and ate idlis, dosas and sambar for breakfast.
"Free from School"
Rahul Alvares
Two of them nearly ran over me once as I was squatting on a deer run waiting for sambar, which were being beaten out of a hill.
"Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon"
Robert A. Sterndale
He describes various hunts by packs of these dogs, in one of which, witnessed by a brother sportsman, the dogs, five in number, in pressing a sambar stag, spread themselves out like a fan, which he considers a matter of instinct, so that in case of a flank movement the outer dogs would have a chance; in this case however the stag kept straight on, and, the ground being precipitous, he managed to escape.
"Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon"
Robert A. Sterndale