BULLET AND SHOT 



Some fat sheep should be driven up from the 

 plains by short marches, and a number of fowls in 

 baskets should also be taken. The sportsmen should 

 insist upon baskets being used for this purpose, 

 since natives have no regard whatever for animal 

 suffering, and treat the miserable sentient creatures, 

 who are unfortunate enough to be in their power, as 

 if they had no more feeling than blocks of wood. 

 Consequently, if allowed to do so, they would tie 

 the wretched fowls' legs together, and, slinging a 

 number of them by passing a stick between their 

 legs, would carry them, with their heads hanging 

 down, for any distance under a broiling sun. 



Rifles and ammunition have not been included in 

 the above list. If there be as is probable at a 

 high elevation ibex (the Nilgiri wild goat) within 

 reach of the camp, a '303, '450, or '500 express rifle 

 should be taken by each sportsman ; while for use 

 upon bison, a '577 express each will suffice, though 

 if either of them should happen to possess an 

 8-bore gun or rifle, he should take it as a second 

 gun when out in search of the larger game. 



When shooting in the hills, a first-rate telescope 

 should be carried by one of his men, and in his 

 own pocket the sportsman should carry a pair of 

 "Lilliput" binoculars. 



The tents forming the camp should be pitched in 

 a sheltered situation near to running water, and, 

 if possible, as previously recommended, at an eleva- 

 tion of not less than 5000 feet. 



The sportsmen must insist upon trenches of suffi- 

 cient depth being dug all round the tents, if the latter 



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