PREPARATIONS AND EQUIPMENTS. 







four of my servants having charge, each of one. Two 

 Colt's revolvers and ammunition, shikar knife and belts, 

 knives for skinning, four boxes arsenical paste, from Peake 

 and Allen, cleaning rods, bullet moulds, and all the 

 paraphernalia of a sportsman. 



Of fishing-tackle, a large salmon-rod, a common trout- 

 rod, a gaff, two large winches, one small ; stout plaited 

 silk line, and hair for the small rod, a variety of flies, 

 and a good supply of spinning tackle and hooks, on which, 

 from past success, I principally depended. Being without 

 good spinning gear, I had some hooks, or rather the spin- 

 ning contrivance to which they were fitted, made by a 

 ' maistry ' in Amritsir, after a model I had given him ; 

 and very well he succeeded. The system of hooks was 

 devised and fitted by a young brother officer, an ardent 

 devotee of the gentle craft, and clever at all kinds of 

 fishing gear. 



Having the year previous killed some good fish in a fine 

 stream ' en route ' to Cashmere, I anticipated some sport 

 this time. 



My tents were, the one a small two-poled shikar tent 

 made very light, about 12 ft. long by 7, which for the 

 present trip I had covered so as to resemble, in some degree, 

 what is called a Swiss cottage tent ; the other was a small 

 thing, just big enough to put a bed in, and carried altogether 

 by one coolie : the bigger one takes four. I had also a 

 folding wooden bed, and lots of bed clothes, &c. 



I have now enumerated all I recollect of my equip- 

 ment, a good stock of suitable clothes being understood. 



