PREFACE ix 



The use of a few Hindustanee words I have found 

 unavoidable ; but they are very few, and in each 

 instance followed by the translation. 



Such phrases as "your excellency," "your wor- 

 ship," "your honour," though not strictly and 

 literally correct, will serve to represent the ex- 

 aggerated terms in which natives are in the habit 

 of addressing their superiors. 



The illustrations are from drawings of my own, 

 which, being without any pretension to merit, are 

 merely intended to assist the reader in realising 

 some of the scenes described. The regular estab- 

 lished feature of Indian scenery the cocoa-nut or 

 palm will be looked for in vain. I have not 

 introduced them, because they do not prevail in 

 the parts of the country depicted. 



It has been my endeavour to describe the ad- 

 ventures naturally, and without investing the 

 hunters with any attributes of mock heroism. They 

 are not pourtrayed as heroes of romance, but simply as 

 hearty English sportsmen in fact, men, of which Her 

 Majesty's forces in India afford numerous specimens. 



