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the Queen ; locomotion is easy, and not expensive, carts 

 being almost everywhere procurable, or, failing carts, pack 

 bullocks or ponies. The country is studded with British 

 cantonments 200 and 300 miles apart, where supplies can be 

 got to replenish the commissariat department the traders' 

 shops containing all that may be desired, from Holloway's 

 pills to moderator lamps, and from Hall's gunpowder to bitter 

 beer and cod-liver oil. All articles are generally at fair prices, 

 the distance from England and the irregular market considered. 



The "promiscuous" traveller cannot, of course, expect, on 

 first landing in the country, to get servants of the best class, 

 the more so as they would be aware that their work would be 

 hard, and their situations only temporary ; but good rough- 

 and-ready men will always be found on the look-out for 

 service, and prepared to start on a day's notice. 



The only parts of the country which are much shot over 

 are those in the immediate proximity of cantonments, say 

 within fifty or sixty miles. Beyond this radius game may 

 be found in sufficient quantities to satisfy the most greedy 

 sportsman ; and in the pursuit of some species he will find 

 no lack of the danger which gives zest to the chase. 



In the event of sickness or accident, skilled surgeons are 

 to be met with in every cantonment. Indian hospitality is 

 proverbial, and the patient might reckon on being courteously 

 received and well cared for. Formerly, such a thing was 

 hardly necessary, but now-a-days one or two good letters of 

 introduction at starting would be found useful. In India 

 everybody knows everybody, and the stranger would be 

 passed on from one cantonment to the next. 



With the exception of his guns and rifles and their 

 ammunition, an outfit for a six months' excursion might be 

 got together in a day at any of the Presidency towns. 



