1 94 Leaves from an Indian Jungle. 



well acquainted with the object of his mission in our 

 camp ! 



An amusing correspondence, published in the Times of 

 India in December 1900, concerning certain Christmas 

 shooting camps, seems to indicate that such jealousies are 

 not necessarily restricted to any particular locality. 



India being the last country in which such degeneracy 

 of habit may be safely indulged in by public officials, it is 

 incumbent on the shooting public to apply what antidotes 

 they can, and lose no opportunity of assisting such fallen 

 countrymen to recognize and correct the narrow-minded 

 ways into which they have fallen, owing no doubt to a 

 too long and intimate contact with native idiosyncrasies. 

 But the means employed in dealing with these fortu- 

 nately rare cases will necessarily have to be as subtle as 

 the evil it is intended to counteract. 



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Within the last five years a notable change has taken 

 place in the big-game sportsman's weapons, which sug- 

 gests a subject too interesting to pass by without some 

 brief notice. 



This is the passing of the black powder rifle, both of 

 the ' Express ' and large bore type, and the genesis of the 

 cordite rifle of medium bore. 



Up to about ten years ago sportsmen used either the 

 large bore rifle (or ball gun) or the express rifle, both 

 with black powder. About that period it was discovered 

 that the new military small-bore rifles possessed wonderful 

 powers, when used with a suitable bullet, and these rifles so 

 deservedly engaged the enthusiasm of many sportsmen that 

 they emerged triumphantly from all kinds of troubles occa- 



