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and " Travel and Adventure in South-Eastern Africa " two 

 of the finest volumes on African sport and travel that have 

 ever been written. 



I have often wished I could write like Mr. Selous, or be 

 able to draw like Mr. Millais ; but we cannot all be gifted 

 in this way so we have to do the best we can. 



Some splendid works have been written on Indian sport, 

 and I remember how interesting I found E. Baker's " Sport 

 in Eastern Bengal." This is a little known work, but one 

 much above the average. 



A splendidly illustrated volume is Williamson's " Indian 

 Field Sports," and Simson's book about pig-sticking and 

 tiger shooting is also very interesting. 



General A. A. Kinloch's book about sport in the Hima- 

 layas is well written and illustrated, and another volume on 

 the same region I remember enjoying greatly is Major 

 C. S. Cumberland's. 



With regard to the shooting and habits of the Indian 

 elephant, the best work in existence is the late. Mr. J. G. 

 Sanderson's " Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of 

 India," as he had great experience of elephants and 

 other game during the time he was in charge of the 

 Government Keddahs in Southern and Eastern India. 



There are several other most interesting books about 

 Indian shooting and natural history, such as the works of 

 Forsyth, Markham, Rice, Macintyre, Sir Victor Brook 

 (written by a friend), General Douglas Hamilton, Newall, 

 Jordon, Inglis ("Tent Life in Tigerland"), Hornaday, 

 Durand, Gerard, and many others. 



Some other authors on African sport I have not men- 

 tioned are Drummond, Cotton, Kirby, Teleki, Wallace, 

 Sykes, Stigand (a fine sportsman and an able field 

 naturalist), Foa, Dugmore, Willougby, Bryden, Dickinson, 

 Leatham, Drake-Brockman, Peel, Stevenson, Faulkner, 

 Neumann (one of the finest hunters who ever shot in 

 Africa), Patterson, Buxton (a most interesting writer), Sir 

 Cornwallis Harris, Gibbons, Methuen, Alexander, Chapman, 

 Andersson, and very many more I have forgotten. 



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