48 SPORTING IN BOTH HEMISPHERES. 



jovialities, and a consequently lengthened repose, would not 

 have engendered. 



This, at least, was the only sanitary system I adopted 

 during my residence in India on non-parade mornings, and 

 I sincerely believe that I may attribute the impunity I 

 enjoyed from tropical ailments, during my stay in the 

 country, to its beneficial results. 



Bustard of very large size are often met with on these 

 plains, but are exceedingly difficult of approach; and during 

 my stay at Jaulnah, I never knew one killed by a European 

 sportsman. The Shikarees sometimes brought them for sale, 

 and I have known one of forty pounds weight served up at 

 our mess-table. 



I happened to be on a week's shooting excursion some 

 distance from the cantonment, with an officer of another 

 regiment, who was one of my most frequent companions on 

 such occasions, a good sportsman, who had gained skill and 

 experience by a much longer residence in India than myself. 

 We had our usual camp equipage, and were prepared for any 



sort of game we might meet with ; and B e, who was 



well mounted, had with him a couple of beautiful Arab 

 greyhounds, for the purpose of fox-hunting, and his spears, 

 in case of finding wild hog, into which sport he had been 

 initiated, and had already killed his hog single-handed. 



After moving from place to place, and killing our usual 

 complement of pea-fowl, hares, partridges, and quails ; 

 observing tracks of several tigers, but not taking any par- 

 ticular trouble to find them ; and stalking several neilgha,u 

 unsuccessfully, we arrived near a village, where we learnt 

 from a Shikaree that wild hog were in the habit of freqiient- 

 ing a sugar-cane plantation by night, near the place where 

 we were encamped, and returning to a neighbouring jungle, 

 about two miles distant, on the break of day. 



Acting on this information, we opened our campaign on 



