HINTS TO BEGINNERS 



few shots (comparatively) that re-capping, with the 

 possibility of a miss-fire, or a badly fitting, some- 

 what expanded case as the result, is in my opinion 

 false economy. 



In the low- country forests, the sportsmen may 

 go in for whatever luxuries they may choose to 

 carry, since carts are always obtainable through 

 the revenue subordinates (provided that orders for 

 their assistance have been sent by the head of the 

 district), and all resolves itself into a question as 

 to how much money the former may wish to expend 

 on personal comforts. In any case, however, my 

 counsel to all sportsmen going out into the jungles 

 is live as well as you can, for, upon doing this, 

 health in a great measure depends. 



The liability of native servants to suffer from 

 sickness in camp is a fertile source of extreme 

 worry and inconvenience to their master. Of 

 course, a servant, who is accustomed to the nightly 

 attractions and dissipations of the bazaar, frequently 

 feigns illness in order to be allowed to return to 

 his low amusements at any rate after the novelty 

 of camp-life has worn off, but in too many cases 

 the illness is" real, and it behoves the sportsman to 

 do all he can to prevent his following from getting 

 sick, as much for their sake as for his own. I used 

 to try to get my camp servants to sleep on a 

 mechan (or platform), erected specially for them 

 inside their own tent and covered with grass ; but, 

 after having, at the cost of much trouble to myself, 

 had the said mechan erected under my own personal 

 supervision, I have found them sleeping on the 



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