416 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



visitors, a nannie-goat, a he-goat, and a couple of kids. 

 I visited the Little Coco on one occasion. It was a 

 miniature Great Coco. I shot a couple of pigs there and 

 some Nicobar pigeons, and saw several puff adders. 



At times I sent over twenty thousand young- 

 sprouting cocoa-nut trees to the Andamans to be 

 planted, and they throve for awhile, but some years 

 afterwards a fearful storm destroyed the greater part 

 of them. When I left the Island in June, 1866, the 

 whole of the works, with the exception of hoisting 

 the lantern, had been completed, and I was to return 

 in November to finish it, and in the meanwhile I 

 applied to Sir A. Phayre for two months' privilege 

 leave, and three months' general in anticipation. So 

 I got on to a P. and 0. steamer and revisited England 

 after eighteen years' absence. In the meanwhile the 

 rules had been altered and no general leave could be 

 taken in extension of privilege, so when my two 

 months were up, the Government telegraphed all 

 over India for me, to go to Assam. The climate 

 there was so bad and the discomforts so great that 

 they could not get any of the numerous executive 

 officers sent there to carry on public works to remain, 

 so as I had served willingly for over thirteen years in 

 Burma, and three in the Bay of Bengal, they trans- 

 ferred me to that tea-growing province. On my 

 return I just missed the direct steamer from Madras 

 to Eangoon, so had to go on to Calcutta. There I 

 called upon T., the garrison engineer, who had been 

 a chum of mine in Burma, and the first thing he said 

 was, " Why you are the very man we want ! Here is 

 a telegram from W., the under secretary to Govern- 

 ment < Can you tell us where that fellow P. is ? We 



