THE HUNTING-GROUNDS OF THE OLD WORLD. XVll 



It is a book of sports and a hook of travels in one — of sports the most 

 nohle and useful, hecause they are directed chiefly against the most destruc- 

 tive of animals ; and of travels the most interesting, because the delineation 

 of the objects of nature and art is interspersed with "hair-breadth escapes" 

 and the most alarming personal dangers. 



At a future day we purpose to return to the volume before us, which, 

 let us not omit to add, is in point of paper and typography well worthy of 

 its agreeable contents, and is illustrated by a series of tinted lithographs 

 that bring before the eye our daring sportsman's encounters with wild 

 beasts. The frontispiece (from a photograph), and its duplicate represen- 

 tation in gilt on the binding of the book, are very appropriate, as the open 

 jaws of the tiger symbolise a principal topic of the work ; and interior and 

 exterior are calculated to render it an ornament to any library. 



" BAILY'S MAGAZINE," November, 1865. 



THE HUNTING GROUNDS OF THE OLD WORLD. 



The Old Shekarry has long been known as one of the best of shots, the 

 boldest of riders, and the most daring of sportsmen ; but it is not in the 

 chase alone that his manhood has been proved, for the numerous honours 

 he bears upon his breast attest that his spui-s have been won upon other 

 fields. Besides his conflicts with the fiercest denizens of the forest in their 

 own tangled haunts, he can tell of many a red field gained in distant lands 

 against fearful odds. Besides having shared in the exhilarating emotions 

 that succeed a hard- won victory, he can tell, of his own experience, " of the 

 panting thirst which scorches in the breath," when the soldier lies upon 

 the field, stricken nigh to death, for he has four times been amongst the 

 " severely wounded." 



As a sportsman, his fame is pre-eminent; for in India, from Cape 

 Comorin to the Himalayas, throughout Thibet, Tartary, Kashmere, and 

 Circassia. the oldest and mightiest of hunters still look up to him as their 

 master in " forest-lore." Those venturesome spirits who have followed in 

 his footsteps— and they are many— "good men and true," not only bear 

 testimony as to the fidelity and truth of his vivid descriptions of forest-life, 

 but they one and all confirm his marvellous exploits with the gun and spear 

 which are so modestly, yet so graphically, delineated in this work. The 



