Made further progress on Colin Thubron's "Shadow of the Silk Road". The descriptions are as vivid as it gets, and the vocabulary and metaphors are brilliant. I've managed to complete a hundred pages in a month's time; much because of the very serious intention of this person to write and convey. I think I'll spend another two months re-reading it, once I'm done.Stalking/Chasing foxes in the evening was exhilarating. There were 4 of them; Shiv spotted them playing high above us on the hill beyond Alukhet (en-route Gethia to Nainital). Foxes make sort of nasal noise that sounds like a pup's squeal. Some stealth movement got me to within 15 ft of a young one until it noticed me and scrambled away in panic. Later gave the mamma-fox a long downhill chase, but with blank/un-evil intentions.
The mystery animals of the day-before-previous turned out to be a herd of Barking Deer/Kakar. The same eyes shining in pitch black, the same gait, same relaxed ways. They, apparently, frequent the same forest floor every night, around 2200. Tonight was more intimidating to them, one of them hysterically barking in panic and breaking the code of nocturnal silence.
Dead animals are an unfortunate sight; but animals dying in their candid agony is the real shocker, as was with that mice crushed by a car (a
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