Photo, by M. H. Hayes. 



CHAPTER III. 



India — Sport as a Training — Cultivation of Pluck — Conscience — Swadharm 

 — My First Book — Literary Style — Life in India — Riding Buckjumpers 

 — Steve Margarett — Lord Lansdowne — Buckjumping defined — Buffalo 

 Bill — Accidents — Fear of Death — Sir Lyon Playfair — Livingstone — 

 Rustem Pasha — Sir Edward Bradford — Sanson — Madame Dubarry — 

 Ue Thou — Cartouche — Burman Dakoits — Balthazar Gerard — Effect of 

 Nervous Shock on Animals and on Prize fighters. 



AFTER I got my commission in the Royal Artillery, 

 I stayed six months at the depot in Sheerness, then 

 exchanged into a field battery which was at Kamptee, and 

 went out to India to join it. The voyage out and back has 

 been so frequently described that I need not allude to it 

 further than to say that I have been three times round the 

 Cape and seven times overland. 



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