Near the end of 1926, Hazrat Inayat Khan was living in a bungalow called Tilak Lodge, not far from the banks of the Jumna River. Although the area has now been completely overrun by the urban sprawl and pollution of Delhi, in those days it was sparsely populated, with abundant wildlife. Pir-o-Murshid was accompanied by Kismet Stam, one of his secretaries, and she recounted the following glimpse in her book, ‘Rays.’

In the evening the hunters came back through the ford in the Jumna. They came with a great noise of the splashing of their horses, and surrounded by their many pointers [i.e. hunting dogs] which continued their search after game as soon as they reached the shore. Their nose on the ground, they did not leave one inch of land un-investigated in their eagerness to find some track.

Murshid said: “They do not smell; they follow their intuition.”