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fact that there are no white labourers in this country. 

 No white man can for any length of time undergo physical 

 labour in India under a labourer's conditions. 



Out here, even at the least unhealthy time of year, a few 

 scratch meals or insufficiently and badly cooked food may 

 soon result in dysentery ; while the exertion of hard work 

 under an Indian sun, if uncompensated for by rest, good 

 palatable food, and a little reasonable stimulant, would as 

 surely lay our hunter, however strong, open to the debili- 

 tating attacks of an ever-lurking malaria. 



Plenty of hard work awaits the man who would ensure 

 successful shikar in India ; but the heavy extra strain to 

 his constitution caused by the heat, peculiarly intense sun, 

 and relaxing foreign climate, must be compensated for by 

 a reasonable amount of comfort and attendance on his 

 return to camp which is fortunately easily arranged in a 

 country of cheap servants and carriage or most unhappy 

 results may follow. 



