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On my arrival from home I found Major Ward- 

 rop's letter asking me to write this chapter. 



My records, photos, etc., being left behind, with 

 no chance of getting them in time, I find it difficult 

 to verify all my facts. 



My thanks are due to Messrs. " Billy " Barker, 

 " Squire " Cress well, and Tom Westmacott for their 

 help in writing these reminiscences, to the latter 

 especially for the paragraphs regarding the Calcutta 

 Tent Clubs, old and new, and origin of Shikarpore 

 Hunt contributed by him. 



Note by Major War drop. — Mr. Crawford's fascinating 

 account in one or two details touches on points mentioned 

 elsewhere in this book. But Mr. Crawford's experiences, 

 although gained in a country separated by the width of a 

 continent from where I have mostly hunted, bear out my 

 own views so closely and interestingly that I have made no 

 attempt to condense either his remarks or mine on these 

 subjects which we have both mentioned. 



