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the sportsman himself, and, in the event of sick- 

 ness or accident, medical aid is unattainable 

 and no approximate estimate of the expenses of 

 the trip can be formed. 



Now, in India none of these objections exist. 

 Servants are easily obtainable, and at comparative- 

 ly low wages. Transport is abundant in the 

 shape of pack-bullocks and ponies, or country 

 carts. Large supplies need not be taken, owing 

 to the numerous villages, where the ordinary food 

 for servants is easily got, and, moreover, the 

 British stations or cantonments are thickly stud- 

 ded over the country, and in most of these there 

 is either a skilled military or civilian doctor, 

 whose services can be relied on in case of illness 

 or accident. There is now a largely extended 

 railway system that traverses the country in all 

 directions, and makes locomotion from one part 

 to another comparatively easy, and, lastly, the 

 sportsman knows that he is pursuing his sport in 

 a part of the British empire, and that, as one of 

 dominant race, his wishes will be more likely to be 

 forwarded by the native inhabitants, than they 

 would be in any other part of the world. 



I may, perhaps, be met with the objection that 

 Africa affords a better field for the sportsman, and 

 that there a larger variety of game will be found. 

 This I deny. In mere numbers, perhaps, a sports- 



