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and the lower jaw replaced. The skin of the head should be 

 well rubbed, more especially about the roots of the ears and 

 the lips, with salt and wood-ashes, or arsenical soap, then 

 partially dried in the sun and packed separately. Thus 

 there is no chance of the hair being rubbed off in transport. 

 Moreover, the unsightly mark of a join on the gullet is ob- 

 viated when the head is eventually stuffed. I may further 

 suggest that when your shikarees, should they be Mahome- 

 dans, perform the "hullal," they should be strictly warned 

 not to bleed the animal close behind the jaws, as is invariably 

 their custom, thereby disfiguring the throat ; but to do so far 

 back, where the head is to be severed from the trunk, as a bit 

 of the neck adds so much to the appearance of a specimen 

 when set up. 



It has been suggested to me that a sketch-map should be 

 attached to this book. But with such excellent topographical 

 and route maps as are published at the office of the Surveyor- 

 General of India, at Calcutta, to refer to, anything ]ess per- 

 fect would be worse than superfluous. And with the land- 

 marks, together with the habitats of different game given 

 throughout these pages, the sportsman can have little diffi- 

 culty in finding his way to many of the best hunting-grounds. 



The means of communication with India are now so rapid 

 and easy, that a trip to the Himalayas is nothing to any one 

 accustomed to travel. The very name of India, which carries 

 with it, and truly to a certain extent, the idea of heat, sick- 

 ness, and discomfort, deters many from going there, except, 

 perhaps, for a few winter months, when some of its grandest 

 attractions are lost to the sportsman or tourist, owing to the 

 higher Himalayan ranges being then almost impracticable 

 from snow. But it must be borne in mind that a " gentleman 

 at large " in India differs vastly, in his position there, from a 

 servant of Government. The latter has, of course, to put up 

 with whatever inconveniences may fall to his lot, and is 

 dependent for his shikar expeditions on the limited periods of 



