ON BIG GAME SHOOTING GENERAILY wW 
ing broadside on, with head aloft like Landseer’s ‘ Monarch,’ 
but will be a long blur of brown on a hillside, with head 
stretched out almost flat upon the ground in front of it, crouch- 
ing (if it has seen you) more like a rabbit than a lordly stag, or 
else it will be but a patch of brown which moves between the 
boles of the pines, ora flickering ear, ora gleaming inch or so of 
antler, or, worse than all, a flaunting white flag bobbing over 
the fallen timber if it is 
a deer, or a dull white 
disc moving up towards 
the skyline if it is a 
sheep which you have 
stirred from amongst 
_ those grey boulders for 
one of which you mis- 
took it. 
A common error 
which men make is to 
depend too much upon 
the eyes of their gillie. 
That an Indian has 
better sight than a white 
man is an article of 
many a man’s creed. 
I believe it to be a mistake. The Indian is trained, he knows 
what to look for, and is looking for it. The average white 
man who takes an Indian with him does not know what to 
look for, and is relying upon his Indian’s eyes. Consequently 
the Indian sees the game first, tries to point it out to his 
"master, who finds it just about the time that the beast has stood 
_ as long as it means to, and is on the move by the time that the 
white man, flurried by his Indian’s oft-repeated ‘Shoot ! shoot !’ 
has found out what he is to shoot at. Of course the result is a 
miss. If, instead of allowing his Indian to go ahead and dothe 
Spying, the gunner had gone ahead, he would in the course of 
_ afew weeks have learnt to find his own game, and when he had 
Over the fallen timber 
