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have certainly failed in describing the scenes as 

 graphically as I could wish. 



Let it not be supposed that the bag of the 

 Eastern Hunters is immoderately large. 



Captain Eice has given an idea of the abundance 

 of game in Kajpootana. In the remote parts of that 

 country and throughout Central India, the jungles 

 teem with wild animals. 



In less favoured places also, or those better 

 known, or more easily reached by the sportsman, 

 game increased during the year of, and after, the 

 mutiny in an extraordinary degree. Officers were 

 too much engaged in more important affairs during 

 those years to make up the usual hot weather 

 hunting-parties, by which the wild beasts of a dis- 

 trict are in a measure kept down. 



In the early part of 1859 it was my fortune to 

 travel by myself through a wild part of Kajpootana. 

 During the march, hearing that game was to be 

 found in the vicinity of my camp, I, on two occa- 

 sions, took out a few beaters without having made 

 any preliminary arrangements. During the first, I 



