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A TIGER HUNT IN INDIA 



Anglo-Indian Government. He was a delight- 

 fully jovial host and a grand organiser. There 

 were also in our camp his Excellency Graf zu 

 Dohna; my friend Finckenstein ; Doctor 

 Wiedenmann; Mr. Wyndham, the Deputy- 

 Collector (something in the nature of our chief 

 magistrate), who had made all the necessary 



arrangements for the hunt with faultless pre- 

 cision; and the English doctor, Mr. O'Meara, 

 a distant connection of the physician who 

 attended Napoleon I at St. Helena. 



We were a jolly, happy company. And the 

 beautiful scenery with which we were sur- 

 rounded was certainly not calculated to damp 

 our spirits. 



In the course of my hunting expeditions in 

 the Fairyland of India, I have never been able 



