CHAPTEE I. 



Introductory Remarks Route and Outfit Expenses Cold Weather Excur- 

 sion Hints on Antelope-shooting, Ducks, Snipe, etc. Hot Weather 

 Excursion 1 Hints on Tiger, Panther, and Bear Shooting Danger of 

 following Wounded Animals on foot Preservation of Skins. 



I HAVE often been surprised that the game of India, with its 

 wild and varied character, does not more frequently attract 

 sportsmen from England. 



In many new and comparatively savage countries, unin- 

 fluenced by British or any other rule worthy of the name, 

 there is no doubt grand and exciting sport to be got ; but 

 then it is accompanied by an amount of hardship and dis- 

 comfort, not to say personal danger, which scares any but 

 the most determined hunters. Servants are with difficulty 

 obtained, and much of what may be called the dirty work of 

 the expedition has to be done by the master. Large supplies 

 of all kinds have to be carried, and, owing to the difficulties 

 of transport, many comforts have to be left behind. The 

 time, moreover, to be taken up by the excursion is uncertain, 

 owing to ignorance of the ground to be traversed and the 

 difficulty of locomotion ; and, in the event of sickness or 

 accident, medical aid is not to be had for love or money. 

 Lastly and to many not least no approximate estimate can 

 be formed of the probable expense. 



In India there is none of this ; the country is either 

 British, or under native chiefs, protected by or tributary to 



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