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treated of separately, as distinct branches. Such are 

 the reasons which have decided us to treat the subjects 

 of Forest and of Plains Hunting under separate head- 

 ings. 



Here it may be desirable to explain that the terms 

 44 hunting " and " hunter " are used in these pages 

 in the sense of " a seeking after game, " as is often 

 done in books which treat of wild sports abroad : 

 they by no means indicate that the sportsman is 

 necessarily mounted on horseback ; in forest and jungle 

 hunting for instance, the use of horses would in most 

 cases be out of the question. 



The fundamental principles under which hunting 

 must always be conducted if success is to be reason- 

 ably hoped for, remain however essentially the same, 

 both in the forest and in the field. 



The direction of the wind must be attended to, so 

 that the game may not scent the hunter; and the 

 hunter must so manage as to see, and work silently 

 up to his game, before the game sees him. 



But in most other respects, the two sports have to 

 be conducted under conditions which differ widely 

 from each other. 



In the forest, all baggage and other impedimenta must 

 be carried by the hunter and his attendants, either 

 upon their backs, if the thickets are very dense, or 

 else upon pack horses or mules, or by boats plying 

 upon the water-ways. On the plains as a rule wheeled 

 vehicles can accompany the hunter almost everywhere ; 

 and most of the hunting, that is to say the search for 

 game, is done on horseback; sometimes also the game 

 is run down and shot from horseback, in which case 

 on account of the wear and tear of horseflesh from 



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