PEEFACE. 



THE following narrative of sport and adventure is 

 mainly a compilation of actual occurrences. Many 

 indeed, most of the sporting incidents recorded 

 in the body of the work are derived from my own 

 journals and note-books ; and, in general, are stated 

 much as they took place under my own observation. 



For a few, I am indebted to the experiences of 

 others ; some of these I have filled in to suit my 

 plan of rendering the accounts as varied as possible, 

 compatible with reality and fact. 



The account of one sporting feat that of the 

 successful right and left shot at tigers I have 

 preferred giving exactly as it was originally written. 

 It is an extract, word for word, from the journal, 

 now in my possession, of a lamented brother ; and, I 



