x PREFACE 



this little book has been to me a labour of love 

 and a constant pleasure from beginning to end. 

 I have undertaken the task with the more 

 confidence because I feel that a book illustrated 

 by Mr. Thorburn and my old friend Mr. G. D. 

 Giles could not in any case lack attractions for 

 the public. I have added a chapter on the 

 jackal because he is to the East both in literature 

 and life what the fox is to the West. I think 

 too that this chapter may increase the usefulness 

 of the book since it contains the practical 

 experiences of one who for some time whipped- 

 in to and then hunted foxhounds after jackal in 

 the East. In addition to my own experience 

 this chapter includes the lessons taught me by 

 Major Henry Clerk, late of the Queen's Bays, 

 under whom I learned the work of a whipper-in 

 and huntsman as well as how to manage hounds 

 in kennel in a hot country. 



Such as the book is I send it out in hopes 

 that it may interest my fellow sportsmen and 

 field naturalists and be found not unworthy of 

 the admirable series of which it forms a part. 



T. F. DALE. 



