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It will be a good plan also to endeavour to 

 ascertain if the villages on the route chosen are 

 capable of affording plenty of supplies for the 

 native servants and camp-followers. Often much 

 disagreeableness is occasioned by the native fol- 

 lowing of a sportsman literally 4 eating up ' the 

 supplies of some poor jungle village who have 

 only sufficient for their own wants. Of course 

 this is distasteful, to say the least of it, to the 

 villagers concerned, and, if they think they will 

 be subject to such treatment, they will withhold 

 information regarding game, for fear of bringing 

 the c sahib log ' and their harpies of servants 

 down on them. If, therefore, supplies are un- 

 likely to be met with in abundance, it will be as 

 well to take plenty of rice, flour, curry stuff, etc., 

 for the servants. This may entail extra transport 

 arrangement, but it will be found to pay in the 

 long run. 



Information of game, if proved correct, should 

 always be liberally rewarded, and, in case of 

 success, an extra douceur may be given with good 

 effect. Beaters should always be paid personally 

 by one of the party, to ensure their receiving 

 their wages. It is but a mite, each man getting 

 a sum equivalent to about twopence to fourpence, 

 but it is much to them, and, if left to your shikari 



