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Phillips started at 3 P.M. for the railway thirty miles 

 distant, and reached it in time to catch the daily 

 train at 8 A.M. the following morning. 



Phillips is now none the worse barring a few 

 stiff fingers, a stiff wrist and elbow. He considers 

 he owes an arm at any rate to the prompt applica- 

 tion of perchloride of mercury. This in no way 

 lessens his gratitude to his plucky rescuer, his 

 staunch bearer, the several medical officers to whose 

 skill he at any rate owes the use of his arm, and to 

 a brother officer who came from Meerut to fetch 

 him, and was kindness itself during a very trying 

 journey. The kindness and hospitality shown in 

 India to complete strangers when in trouble have 

 to be experienced to be realised. 



A syringe with which to clean and sterilise 

 wounds is a most important item in any hunting 

 outfit. It is a sound thing to have a spare one in 

 case of a breakage. Shooting once in the Nizam's 

 dominions with Mr. (now Major) Fitzgerald, R.H.A., 

 and Mr. Broome, R.F.A., I was fairly severely 

 bitten in the left shoulder and clawed in various 

 places by a panther. He charged in some blind 

 jungle as we were following him up. I had wounded 

 him in the first place, and it was a judgment on 

 myself for shooting jealously. When they came to 

 dress me they found our only syringe broken, and 

 owing to their depth they could not reach the 

 wounds. Fitzgerald made a first-class syringe with 

 a quill, a match wound with cotton forming the 

 piston. We were a hundred and fifty miles from 

 a railway. The wounds became inflamed, and 

 things did not look well. However, they cured me 

 by constant syringing and running water on me day 

 and night, and I was able to continue the shoot later. 



