cHAP.n HISTORY AND COUNTRY 5 



introduced the " jobbing " spear, and the pig- 

 sticking that we know became universal. 



A " shikari " writes in about 1870 of using 

 either hand, as convenient, to spear with. He 

 was a contemporary and a friend of Nightingale's. 

 I believe that the former's story of shooting a man- 

 eating tiger when dressed as a postal runner was 

 really based on a feat of Nightingale's. The latter 

 was furious, and sought for his man with a gun. 



Nightingale must have been a great character : 

 he shot several hundred tiger, and speared over 

 seventy bears. His whole regiment, after the 

 quarterly muster parade, spent their days in beating 

 for him. I heard much of him from A, my first 

 General in this country, who, as a youngster, had 

 been a protege of his. His methods, according 

 to A, with a jibbing horse were severe in the 

 extreme. 



Dealing as I am entirely with modern pig-sticking 

 I write no more on the history of the sport, for I 

 am sure you will find the above brief summary 

 sufficient. Any encyclopaedia will furnish you with 

 such further information as you may require on 

 this point with a greater accuracy than I can 

 claim to. 



Nor do I attempt to give you details of all the 

 hunting countries from Cape Comorin to Peshawar. 

 They of course vary enormously : some I know, 

 many more I do not. The flying Guzerat fences, 

 the Central Indian Hills, the Bengal churs, and the 

 wide lands of Behar are dealt with in this book by 

 abler hands than mine. Nearly all over India, 

 except in Madras and the Punjab, pig are at your 

 door if you will but look for them. If I have left 

 out many Hunts it is not because they are of the 



