BULLET AND SHOT 



and can squat for hours together in a position 

 which would soon become agony to a European. 

 A native servant, in the south, who does not 

 drink, is a great treasure, and when once secured 

 should be retained as long as possible, much being, 

 if necessary, forgiven him in consideration of so 

 valuable a trait. 



TRAVELLING TO AND IN INDIA 



Should a sportsman from England wish to visit 

 Bengal, or the north of India, he will probably 

 prefer to go by one of the Peninsular and Oriental 

 S.S. Company's vessels from Marseilles or Brindisi 

 to Bombay, and to travel thence by rail to the 

 nearest point at which the latter approaches his 

 destination. He can, however, should he prefer ta 

 do so, go the whole way to Calcutta by sea, and 

 commence his rail journey there. 



If, however, his destination be the south of 

 India, and if he should be so unfortunately con- 

 stituted as to be liable to sea-sickness (from which 

 I personally suffer whenever there is the least 

 excuse for so doing), an expeditious route, with a 

 minimum of sea, is the following. Sending his 

 heavy luggage to the agents at Liverpool a week 

 or ten days before one of the steamers of the 

 Bibby Line is timed to leave that port, and 

 ascertaining on which day the vessel will reach 

 Marseilles, he can join her there, and thus avoid 

 about a week of sea, including the oftentimes 

 turbulent Bay of Biscay. The steamers of that 



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