A Maharajah's Entertainment of Prince Albert Victor.
How Prince Albert Victor shot his first tiger we have already heard, but it appears that the sports provided by the Maharajah of Jevpore for the entertainment of his Royal guest are not confined to the jungle or the forest. His Highness is described as inviting the Prince one morning, as well as all the Europeans resident and tourists in Joypore, to witness a fight between two elephants. The animals, on entering the open space, chased away, it is said, the 30 or 40 spearmen who incited them to the combat, and thereupon they charged each other. After fighting with equal success for some time, they were separated with charges of gunpowder smoke directed towards them. The Royal party then went to another open court where the fights were carried on in succession between pairs of quail partridges, cocks, black bucks, hogs, deer, rams, satnbhur, boars and buffaloes. ‘The animals,’ said a witness of the same, ‘ were all in excellent condition and fought with great fury, especially the rams, sambhur, and boars.’ The writer is careful to assure us that the various combatants were always separated before any injury was done.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 478, 7 June 1890, Page 6
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198A Maharajah's Entertainment of Prince Albert Victor. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 478, 7 June 1890, Page 6
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