GOING OUT IN THE MORNING 



THIS scene represents the encampment of the English officers of a Native Infantry Regiment 

 in the early years of the present century. In a tope, or grove of trees, more commonly the 

 mango-tree with which Bengal and the North-West Provinces are so abundantly planted- 

 are tents of various shapes and sizes. That in the right foreground is a double-poled tent, 

 perhaps thirty feet long by twenty broad, and especially convenient as giving in the centre a 

 large space free from the interruption of poles. In front of it is an elephant on its haunches, 

 while one of the sportsmen is mounting by a ladder to an old-fashioned hauda/i, such as we 

 found in use among the natives of the country. In more modern times the construction of the 

 Jiaudah has been altered from something like a railed couch to what more resembles the body 

 of a mail phaeton, with a seat in front for the sportsman and one behind for his native attendant, 

 the whole generally enclosed by iron rails and having various contrivances for the carrying of 

 the battery, provisions, &c. In front of the elephant is a rider equipped much after the fashion 

 of a modern jockey, a fashion that would seem strange enough in the India of to-day 

 endeavouring to mount a jibbing horse which, as is frequently the case with Indian or, as 

 they are called, country-bred horses, has to be blindfolded before it can be approached by a 



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