Status Updates From Thirteen Years Among The Wi...

Slow going.
“Investigation amongst jungle-men must be carried on in a desultory way, and at fitting times. Any prolonged mental effort soon fatigues their untutored minds. A Kurraba is as quickly tired by a steady course of questions as the most brilliant conversationalist would be if set to push his way through the jungles in which the Kurraba travels from morning till iright without fatigue. “

Ok there’s a lot here about elephants. But also about the desperately poor jungle tribes and how they subsist

Research on Mysore state in the late 1800s. Many place names have changed but I located the vicinity of the nilgiri hills

Page 71 (96) how elephants are captured

“Cutting Tusks”