CONTENTS 



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CHAPTER I 



Decide on an Indian career — The lure of big-game banting— Consider- 

 ing ways and means of adopting it professionally — Final reeohrtkm 

 — Bail for India — En route for Bombay — The pains and pleeeoree 

 of a voyage to tbe East — A game of qaoite interrupted — Man 

 overboard — Attempts at rescue — The shark and its victim — Some 

 remarks about sharks — Superstitions concerning them — The voyage 

 at an end — Anxiety to land explained — " Privilege leave." Us 

 object and odvantagee described — A description of Bombay — Fiat 

 impressions of the East — ^The Elephanta caves, or temples, and 

 their gods— The Towers of Silence cemeteries — Swarms of vultures 

 — Gruesome reasons for their presence — Parsis, their origin, 

 cu<:toms and religion: an enlightened and interesting race — 

 I 1 for journey to Ouxerat — Bullock-carts described — 



.1 of sport — I^lrohaae a gun in the Basar — Discomfort 

 aiiu luxury of railway travelling in India — Full length sleeping 

 accommodation — Long journeys rendered comfortable ... 



CHAPTER II 



A joumoy by boUock-cart — Oome across antelope — A moosMfnl stalk — 

 Skinning my first trophy — Exhibiting my prise— Join tbe 19th 

 Native Infantry— A martinet G.O.— life at llalsgown— Hurdle 

 raoes and a fall— A nov«l ramedy— The Statica Shikari and Us 

 wiles — Paying for expertonoa Beating for a phantom panther — 

 Counterfeited footprmts — ^Tbe fraud de t e ct ed — Flight ci the 

 c\ilprit — Pursuit and ponishiiMnt— -A description of the oflmdar— 

 EscgmimUia (ioos<— UnrsUaUUty of native tnJormattntt — Ljing 

 to pIsa— Other rsaeons for false reports of pms Tact and 

 tMBUMc naoessary to suujsss nswaifls foe tras hifafniatimi — 

 Mmmj wsU laid out— How to Mmdn sn eri saoo A Mid Inddsnt 

 In o«r station Ufa— SkrlaridiM ends In aTHsasts r Qotof to a caoa 

 mssHnc ^7 '^^ — ^Walking aloag the footboard — ApycoaoUng a 

 bridga— Warned too lata— Oanaoned of! into the rirsr— Body 

 sohasqmntly reeoversd 9 



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