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combined work and sport. I may here say that I 

 worked these four elephants and two of my own for 

 seven years and did not lose one. My successor, no 

 sportsman, fearing the displeasure of the acting com- 

 missioner, who, having quarreled with me, had tried 

 to prevent my using these beasts as heretofore, laid 

 them up, using them only now and then. The 

 country had then been thoroughly opened out, and 

 there was not then the same need for those useful 

 beasts as in former days. They soon sickened, and 

 all were dead within a year or fifteen months after 

 my departure. Although I worked these animals 

 well, I saw to their welfare. I had had them fed 

 before me daily, and took care to have the best of 

 mahouts. 



As I divided all Government rewards between 

 them, they were very contented. After my departure, 

 finding this portion of their income cease, they left 

 the Government service and took employment with 

 planters and others, who were fond of sport and 

 treated them liberally. The elephants were handed 

 over to inefficient men, no care was taken of them, 

 and they all died as stated. 



The "Dangers and Incidents of Foreign Sport" 

 herein detailed have been taken from diaries care- 

 fully kept for many years past. Although written 

 in the first person singular, a few of the tales are 

 not the author's, but were related by men in whose 

 veracity every reliance could be placed. Imperfect 

 as they may be indeed as they must be, \vhen the 

 narrator is not a practised writer it is hoped they 

 will help to pass a few leisure hours. " Sporting 



