Jungle By-Ways in India 



The experience one learns after a few fruitless 

 stalks after this dainty little animal, is to aim and 

 fire quickly once one has got within reasonable 

 distance of a shot proving effective. 



When out on treks in the desert tracks of the 

 country, whether on duty or pleasure, a few hours 

 after gazelle are well repaid, since the flesh is 

 most excellent eating ; the weight of a buck is 

 some 50 Ibs., the animal standing some 26 inches 

 at the shoulder, whilst a doe weighs about 10 Ibs. 

 less. 



One can look back to many pleasant hours 

 spent stalking these graceful antelope, and though 

 you might think that each day or each stalk after 

 them would be more or less similar to one another, 

 yet they are not. I do not think I have ever had 

 two stalks alike in my life, and therein lies the 

 fascination of stalking, one of the best forms of 

 shooting in existence. Incidents arise, constantly 

 arise, trivial in themselves perhaps at the time of 

 meeting them, but how often does one look back 

 to some one or more of those trivial incidents and 

 reflect that such and such a one in all probability 

 cost one the loss of a fine head or a fine pelt. 

 Therein lies the fascination of the whole game, 

 and it is he who learns to treat each little incident 

 arising during a stalk as of supreme importance 

 who will have the greatest success. 



It was a hot morning in May in the sandy 

 desert plains of Baluchistan that I made my first 



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