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out shooting whenever it was compatible with the 

 exigencies of duty for them to do so. 



Not only must the sportsman in pursuit of large 

 game learn infinite patience during frequent periods 

 of unrequited toil, but he must, in order to be 

 really successful, often exercise much self-denial, 

 more particularly when hill-shooting, or when work- 

 ing localities wherein the scarcity of means of 

 transport circumscribes the amount of necessaries 

 which can be taken with him. He must, moreover, 

 be temperate in all things, if he is to attain the 

 physical condition which alone will enable him to 

 support severe exertion often in great heat under 

 circumstances diametrically opposed to those of his 

 usual life in his headquarters. 



Then again, the sportsman who is in pursuit 

 of dangerous game must learn to keep cool in 

 moments of peril, and to strive to do always the 

 right thing at the right moment, often with no time 

 for deliberation. 



As an incentive to exercise in climates which 

 engender languor and a disinclination for exertion, 

 the pursuit of both large and small game is in- 

 valuable ; and the love of this form of sport, so 

 common amongst our countrymen, is a potent factor 

 in the preservation of the health of Europeans in 

 India. It is not often that residents in the country, 

 who are obliged to work for their living, have any 

 opportunity of bagging more than a certain pro- 

 portion of the long list of game animals inhabiting 

 the vast continent of India, but there are at home 

 many men with both leisure and ample means, who 



