i6o RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



month, i.e., at the present rate of exchange, 

 about £21. 



For outfit you take your ordinary clothes, 

 and a native tailor will, on your verandah, 

 make you suits of kharki for jungle wear, 

 and if you give him an old pair of good polo 

 breeches to cut up, will make you a very pass- 

 able article. For boots, brown polo boots are 

 the best ; and spurs, which should always be 

 worn, should be of the short-necked kind. As 

 to saddles, take what you have, or if you like 

 to fit yourself out with new ones by makers 

 who are known and trusted in India, Nicholls 

 of Berkeley Street and Souter will always find 

 purchasers when you leave. Raw hide girths 

 are the best for hot weather, but I have found 

 Fitzwilliam answer very well. Light double 

 bridles, such as most people use for polo, are 

 the most serviceable, but if you buy ho.ses 

 from men out in India, I should advise buying 

 the bridle he is ridden in as well. On the 

 whole a real hard-puller is rare in India, and 

 I should certainly not buy one for pig-sticking, 

 however good he was otherwise. I should 

 prefer buying horses with a character, and that 

 know the game to raw ones, even if they are 

 a litde knocked about ; but in buying old 

 horses be sure that age has not brought 

 cunning, and that they will go right up to their 



