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AN AMERICAN HUNTER 



big game, and especially dangerous big game; and it is 

 a mistake in any way to subordinate the greater work to 

 the lesser. 



Books on big game hunting in India are as plentiful, 

 and as good, as those about Africa. Forsyth's " High- 

 lands of Central India," Sanderson's " Thirteen Years 

 Among the Wild Beasts of India," Shakespeare's " Wild 

 Sports of India," and Kinloch's " Large Game Shoot- 

 ing," are perhaps the best; but there are many other 

 writers, like Markham, Baldwin, Rice, Macintyre, and 

 Stone, who are also very good. Indeed, to give even 

 a mere list of the titles of the good books on Indian 

 shooting would read too much like the Homeric cata- 

 logue of ships, or the biblical generations of the Jew- 

 ish patriarchs. The four books singled out for special 

 reference are interesting reading for anyone ; particularly 

 the accounts of the deaths of man-eating tigers at the 

 hands of Forsyth, Shakespeare, and Sanderson, and some 

 of Kinloch's Himalayan stalks. It is indeed royal sport 

 which the hunter has among the stupendous mountain 

 masses of the Himalayas, and in the rank jungles and 

 steamy tropical forests of India. 



Hunting should go hand in hand with the love of 

 natural history, as well as with descriptive and narrative 

 power. Hornaday's " Two Years in the Jungle " is espe- 

 cially interesting to the naturalist; but he adds not a little 

 to our knowledge of big game. It is earnestly to be 

 wished that some hunter will do for the gorilla what 

 Hornaday has done for the great East Indian ape, the 

 mias or orang. 



