Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1877-07-14)

Dear Prof. Ward: I research the hills two days ago, and met Mr. Theobald, who received me very cordially. Stayed a short time with him and then moved off to better hunting grounds. Am now comfortably settled in my own hut in the forest at the camp where the Gav't Elephants are, have a good native hunter and gang of 5 coolies from this Hill tribe - the Muleeen. Up to yesterday the weather had been dry and fine ever since my animal but now the rains have set in again. U have not yet got the Rajulis unqualified permissions to start the elephants, so I have been devoting myself vigorously to smaller game. During the ten days I have been in the hills, I have bagged the following: 1 ♀ Bison, (skel), 1 Sambar, (skin), 1 "ibex", or Neil glerry wild goat, of Jerdon, (skin), 2 Muntjac (skin and skel), a Neil glerry Lauguns, 1 ♂ Axis deer (skin, very fine), and this morning a fine old Ursus laliatus. of which I think we will take the skull as soon as the coolies arrive with it. These names are all from Jerdon, as I go by him altogether. Have had his work all along. Don't you think the above is pretty fair for ten days work? The forest is full of game, and I am going to send you the finest assorted collection of mammals from here you ever received, and it won;t be a small lot either. You may depend. I also killed a ♀ Sambar deer this a.m. but it was too young for either skin skel or skull. Tomorrow I go out upon an Elephant to hunt Axis deer, then. And so this work goes on. I am greatly pleased to find game really so plentiful, though it takes hard work to kill it. Mr. Theobald is now in the lowlands, and a letter from him today says he will return next Wednesday and bring the "permission" with him. He has been to see the Rajah [penarally?], per day each and I give the slikarce I As, my expenses are none