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in concert with the expeditions. Without their, co-operation 

 nothing can be done. A thorough sportsman, well acquainted 

 with the country, and known to get on among natives, must 

 be placed with sole power at the head of each party. I need 

 not go farther into details. The scheme is so simple, and so 

 certain of success, without even the least extra expense to the 

 state, that it is only surprising that, among so many schemes 

 which have received notice, this, the only possible method 

 of making a real and speedy impression upon the wild 

 animals, should not have been brought forward. Of course 

 it is unnecessary to say that partial and timid experiments 

 of the sort can lead to no result worthy of notice. The scale 

 of operations must be large, while at the same time the 

 arrangement of the details of organization must be careful, 

 and free from anything resembling jobbery. I have said that 

 no extra expenditure need be incurred. The pay of the 

 officers employed and expenses of the elephants would not of 

 course be charged to this work, while all the other expenses 

 of camp equipage, carriage, hunting expenses, etc., should be 

 defrayed from the existing provision for rewards. 



On the 27th of May I shot my last tiger for that season in 

 the famous cover of Dapdrd,, being seized the next day with 

 the preliminary symptoms of what turned out to be a severe 

 attack of jungle fever, brought on by constant exposure to 

 the hot sun by day and the malarious air of these close 

 valleys by night ; cholera, too, was raging all around us, and 

 so I determined to return to the cool heights of Puchmurree, 

 which I did by the Bori route, in four longish marches. I 

 was sick of the constant severe heat of the burnt-up plains 

 below, and parched with the coming fever as well, and I 

 think I never enjoyed anything so much as when I bared my 

 head to the cool breeze that swept over the Puchmurree 



