Big Game Shooting 



base of the V well back, is that by no chance can 

 these cuts be seen when the head is on the wall, 

 as they are well concealed by the horns. Take 

 great care on meeting the eyes or eye-glands, 

 Take all the flesh out of the lips, and, lastly, skin 

 the ears by cutting out all the flesh, and then 

 pushing a table-spoon up between the inside and 

 outside skins. If insects are going to try and 

 damage a skin, they start at any place where 

 skin touches skin, ears and lips. Paint both of 

 these with arsenical soap. Lastly, turn the 

 skin inside out, stuff it well with dry grass, put 

 it in the sun to dry, and after an hour or so rub 

 in dry wood-ashes. It does not matter much 

 about the skin shrinking, as whoever mounts the 

 head for you at home has to moisten the skin, 

 and so can stretch it. When the skins are 

 properly dry, put them in the sun every day, and 

 keep them inside out. The horns of certain 

 animals cannot be taken off. Pull off all that 

 you can. They will not come off for ten days or 

 a fortnight, and you must on no account force 

 them off by hitting them. A lot can be done 

 towards killing maggots in a head, in the jungle, 

 with boiling water. In the rains it is exceedingly 

 hard to do anything with skins, as, there being no 

 sun, they seem to try their best to go rotten at 

 once, if not sooner ! Drying by the camp fire is 

 little good, except for a skin that one wants to 

 keep at all hazards. In that case the sentry must 



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