vi Preface. 



He was exceptionally lucky in being sent to a 

 province teeming with game when barely twenty- 

 one years of age, which had never been hunted 

 over. He was for twenty-one years in the best 

 sporting countries under our rule ; he had under him 

 vast districts ; his work lay in surveying, and laying 

 out roads, which enabled him to travel over virgin 

 forests and jungles ; he had numerous elephants ; he 

 was not only young, but had the constitution of a 

 buffalo, ample means, and had shooting and hunting 

 on the brain. He made the most of his oppor- 

 tunities to the best of his ability, and hopes, by 

 relating his experiences, to not only instruct the 

 young, but also to afford an hour or two's amusement 

 to far better and more successful sportsmen than 

 himself. A few of these " Incidents " have appeared 

 in the pages of the Field, Land and Water, and 

 Shooting Times, and are reproduced with the kind 

 permission of the proprietors of those journals. 



March, 1894. 



