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in no whit more experienced than myself. We 

 thought to do it economically, and accordingly 

 stinted ourselves in many creature comforts, even 

 to limiting our cooking arrangements, and 

 crockery to such as could be contained in a 

 Crimean bucket apiece ! 



The following year I went with the friend to 

 whom these pages are dedicated, a thorough 

 sportsman, who had had much previous experience 

 in all the different arrangements necessary for 

 carrying out a c shikar ' trip successfully and com- 

 fortably. In the first instance the cost for a two 

 months' trip was about fifty pounds apiece, in the 

 latter I think fifty-five pounds, but then in that 

 one we had an elephant, and took our horses and 

 many of our servants down some one hundred 

 miles by rail, which we did not do in the former 

 trip. In addition we lived like i fighting cocks/ 

 and had the best of everything. 



1 How was it managed, and how do you account 

 for such a discrepancy?' may be asked 



Kind reader, I will explain it in three words, 

 'Experience and management.' These two ad- 

 juncts did the trick, and made all the difference. 



It may not perhaps be here out of place to give 

 the items of our suites, and the paraphernalia that 

 accompanied us in both trips. I must, however, 

 state that we shared all common expenses, and 



