SHIKAR SKETCHES: 



WITH 



NOTES ON INDIAN FIELD SPORTS. 

 CHAPTER I. 



A MOONLIGHT SHOT. 



Night in the Jungle Preparations Bansolee Animal and Bird 

 Life A Bear Successful Shot More Bears Effects of a 

 Shell Bad Luck Tracking The Trail Lost Return to 

 Camp. 



THERE are many men, very many, who have made 

 bigger bags and seen more of shikar than your 

 humble servant, kind reader. You are doubtless 

 acquainted with General Mulligatawny, who has 

 shot his three hundred tigers, and Sir John Spear- 

 shaft, late of the Bombay Civil Service, who can 

 count his first spears by the hundred. Have we 

 not all read Mr. Sanderson's delightful book, 

 entitled, c Thirteen Years amongst the Wild 



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