4 SHOOTING ON THE MAECH^ 



and few places were totally bare of game. 

 Deer, antelope, and nyl-ghau, were killed 

 near the line of march, the sportmen's bags 

 were well filled, and the mess supplied ^vith 

 pea-fowl, partridges, rock -pigeons (often called 

 grouse), fine birds, weighing about seventeen 

 ounces,* and very wild, quails, snipes, &c. 

 We were likewise indulged with numerous 

 reports of tigers, leopards, and bears. When 

 halting at large stations, cricket was the 

 order of the day. 



The spring of 1847 found the regiment at 

 Meerut, fast settling down into the steady 

 routine of an Indian corps, having left many 

 English ideas upon the road, and become 

 acclimatised, as well in mind, as in body. 

 The hot season was commencing, during 

 which drill is impossible, and forced idleness 

 rules the plains. 



Recollections of many an expedition in 

 Canadian forests, marked indelibly in 



* There are several varieties of the rock-pigeon, differing in 

 size, which I was not aware of w1\pn I noted that weight in my 

 Journal. 



