M1LITAR Y AD VENTURES. 217 



Several days must elapse before we 

 could receive our guns, dogs, and ponies 

 up from the plains, so we looked out for a 

 shikari to accompany us ; and, from the 

 cheering accounts this man gave of the 

 quantity of large game lying close to 

 where we were staying, and also hearing 

 that they were seldom shot or disturbed, 

 we hoped to make such a bag as seldom 

 had been heard of by sportsmen in the 

 Himalaya mountains. We left the shikari 

 to engage the coolies and beaters, and, in 

 addition to these we required several 

 coolies to carry our tents, bedding, pro- 

 visions, and wines ; though we did not 

 intend to take a large supply of the latter 

 article, still we were both invalids -'and 

 absolutely required our wine. I used to 

 take half a dozen glasses of good old 

 port every day from which I derived the 



