24 SPORTING AND 



but are of comparatively little value, as 

 you can, or could at the time of which I 

 am writing procure one of these useful 

 little animals for fifty rupees, (five pounds 

 of our English money) and they will do the 

 work of a horse ten times their value. I 

 have often thought how useful they would 

 be in this country if they could be brought 

 home in sufficient numbers to pay. I fancy 

 if a good many of them were shipped from 

 Calcutta they might be sold in England at 

 eight or ten pounds a head, and they would 

 not cost more than a pound or thirty 

 shillings each for the passage. It is a pity 

 some speculative individual does not try it, 

 as I believe it would be a certain profit. 



I cantered back to Calcutta in less 

 than two hours, and found my tent still 

 standing and my servants calmly sleeping 

 in the shade as comfortably and con- 



