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of sport, and Indian sport in particular, will 

 be accepted as my excuse. 



I -have confined myself strictly to the descrip- 

 tion of such animals and their pursuits as I was 

 myself familiar with, and outside these bounds 

 I have not ventured to- travel. To Lieutenant- 

 Colonel W. Brough (R.H.A., retired) and J. 

 C. Dollman, Esq., R.I., as the artists of the 

 illustrations, I must tender my warmest and 

 most grateful thanks for the happy manner in 

 which they have caught the spirit of the sport, 

 and the faithful way in which the incidents 

 described have been delineated ; and in this 

 opinion I think most Indian sportsmen who 

 have participated in like scenes will agree. 



Lieutenant-Colonel Brough's sketch illustrates 

 a scene described in these pages in which he 

 himself actually took part, and is true to the 

 life ; whilst Mr. D oilman's have been elabor- 

 ated from my own rough sketches (done whilst 

 the incidents were fresh in my memory), aided 

 by my own personal explanations of technical 

 details, position, scenery, etc., and so I can 

 vouch for their accuracy. 



