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under my own control in subsequent encounters 

 with that ponderous animal. A leather case, made 

 to hold ten or a dozen express cartridges and 

 fitting on to a belt, is also useful ; and a tin cylinder 

 in each stall will render the extraction of the 

 cartridges all the easier, as well as serving as 

 protection against a knock which might dent their 

 contents if the stalls consisted of plain leather 

 only. , 



For carrying luncheon, a most useful carrier is 

 an invention of my own, viz., a stout leather bag 

 with five divisions, each of which will hold either 

 a quart bottle of cold tea, or two bottles of soda- 

 water (the upper bottle being inverted), or a 

 tumbler (two if required), and a packet of sand- 

 wiches. Thus, utilising one division for the 

 tumblers and sandwiches, my bag will carry in 

 addition either four quart bottles of cold tea, or 

 eight bottles of soda-water. I have found this 

 bag a most useful institution, whether out tiger, 

 elephant, or bison shooting in the jungles, antelope 

 shooting in the plains, or ibex shooting on the 

 hills ; while for snipe shooting in Mysore (but here 

 it requires to be supplemented by a further store 

 of fluid, for the thirst generated by snipe shooting 

 is something to be remembered) it is also excellent. 

 I preferred, however, when snipe shooting in the 

 Madura district, to carry a box of ice, and to ice 

 my soda-water bottles therein, as the sun in that 

 part of India is very powerful. 



I do not recommend re-capping of any cartridge 

 cases used in big game shooting. One gets so 



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