320 On the Mfthod of Hunting and Sporting 



jnodation of the company, to feme verdant fpot, near to a 

 grove and rivulet, previoufly feleftcd, elephants and camels 

 are borrowed ; fmall country carts, oxen, and bearers hired, 

 at no confidcrable expenfe, the price of all kinds of grain, 

 and wages ot coiirfe, being exceedingly reafonable. Nor does 

 the connTianding officer of the troops within the di drift often 

 refiife a guard of fcpovs to proteA the company from the 

 danger of wild hearts, (tor Inch generally refort to the haunts 

 of game,) or the depredations of Itill wilder banditti, now and 

 then pervading the coiinlry. 



The hnoer tents are pitched in a fquare or circle, while 

 thofe for the guards and fervants ufnally occupy the outer 

 Ipace. Every marquee for a lady is divided into two or three 

 apartments, for her canip-bcd, her clofet, and her dreffing- 

 rooni ; is carpeted or matted, and is covered with a fprcading 

 fly, for defence againtl rain, or exclufion of cal'ual heat, the 

 air ventilating powerfully between the vacuity (about two 

 feet) of the tent and its canopy in unremitted undulation. 

 The doors or curtains of the marquee, wattled with a f\\ eet- 

 icented grais, are, if the weather chance to become fultry, 

 continually fprinkled with water from the outfide; and a 

 chintz wall, ftained in handlioincly- figured compartments, 

 encompafl'es the whole. 



For the fupply of common food, if no village be very near, 

 petty chandler fliops enow are engaged by the family banvans 

 (houfe llewards) to accompany them, glad to proiit of fuch 

 ai*:<jp.portunity of gain. Linuors and every fpecies of Euro- 

 pean articles are provided by the party themfelvcs. 



Horfes are employed for the conveyance of the gentlemen, 

 and palanquins for the ladies, with their female attendants; 

 and, where the roads will admit of it, clofe and open Englifh 

 carriages alfo. 



Part of the morning fports of the men, commencing at 

 dawn of day, conliii in roufing and chafing the wild boar, 

 the wolf, and antelope for <razellel, the roebuck, the mulk, 

 the red and other deer, hares, foxes, and jackalls ; belldes 

 the common red, the fpotted nnd the fmall moofe, there are 

 ten or twelve forts of hou; or (liort-briltled deer. Eoars.are 

 ufually found amongli the uncultivated tracts, or the more 

 regular plantations of fuiiar- canes, which give to their fleih 

 the fineft flavour imaginable. Wolves and jack;dls are feen 

 prowling and lurking, at break of dav, about the flciris of 

 towns and villages, or retiring fron) thence to their dens 

 within woods ; or within pits, hollows, or ravines, on the 

 downs. Hares {l)dter iu the fame fituations as in Eneland. 



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