SPORTING IN BOTH HEMISPHERES. 



CHAPTER III. 



MADRAS WALLAJABAD CHOLERA HIGH LIVING SNIPE SHOOTING 

 SNAKES - CONJIVERAM - MONKEYS AND PEAFOWL VELLORE MARCH TO 

 JAULNAH ADVENTURE WITH A TIGRESS BEJAPORE HYENA ARRIVAL 

 AT JAULNAH. 



dropped anchor in Madras roads, were surrounded by 

 catamarans and native craft; and began, by dint of an 

 immense purchase and consumption of tropical fruits of all 

 descriptions, to lay in the seeds of dysentery and cholera be- 

 fore our time. Traps, trunks, and boxes were hunted up, 

 and the captain, glad to get rid of us, discharged his human 

 cargo of unruly cadets with their baggage into a capacious 

 massoola boat alongside. Onward we go, pulled by the 

 sinewy arms, and almost deafened by the cries, of the native 

 boatmen, through the various mountains of surf that encom- 

 pass the coast, and are at length hauled on shore through 

 the last and most dangerous of all a finale that seldom. 

 occurs without a complete ducking of self and baggage. 



Anxiously awaiting their cargo of European victims, were 

 drawn up on the beach a motley group of native servants, of 

 every grade of rascality, from, the grey-haired dubashee 

 to the infantine chokra, who were all ready to take 

 Massa under their especial charge, and provide him with 

 every necessary, animate and inanimate, out of pure philan- 

 thropy; and dooly or palanquin bearers, with their doolies, 

 to convey him to his destination. Ours happened to be 

 chiefly the cadets' quarters or barracks, situated about two 

 miles from the shore, and where, considering the intense 

 heat, we arrived in our novel conveyances in a wonderfully 



