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the most delightful month everywhere in India. 

 I left my friends' tents about three o'clock one 

 cold morning, and under a beautiful full moon 

 had a pleasant ride to my ground, which I had 

 not long reached before I got the bear and hyaena 

 just mentioned, both fine specimens; within a 

 couple of hours after, perhaps much less, I killed 

 two more good bears, both of which gave me 

 some trouble. I then shot my way back to the 

 tents, going for many miles along one of the salt 

 marshes of the upper part of the Northern Cir- 

 cas, and getting a large and diversified bag of 

 small game, among them my three first specimens 

 of the flamingo, some red-crested pochards, a very 

 beautiful teal (the ' clucking teal,' Querquedula 

 Glocitans), which I have never seen before or 

 since, and seeing what I think were specimens of 

 the scaup pochard, (too wary to bag, however,) 

 and winding up when near the tents with an 

 antelope, which, notwithstanding a ball through 

 his body, gave my active Deccanee galloway, a 

 long and uncommonly fast gallop before the spear 

 blade was blooded.' 



There, kind reader, I think that though you 

 may be the owner of the best deer-forest or 

 grouse moor in bonnie Scotland, or the best 

 coverts and partridge-ground in England, you will 

 find it hard, nay, impossible to beat such a day's 



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