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cocoa-nuts, areca, and other coroneted palms, each 

 hamlet hidden among its own grove of plantations 

 and wealth-giving trees, he feels this is in truth more 

 the India of his imagination, and if his travels take 

 him into the great jungles and up the rocky hills, he 

 will feel some distance from Europe. 



Such, then, is the Deccan. And it is these highlands 

 of India which are specially connected in the mind 

 with tigers and tiger-shooting a theme which, I 

 venture to hope, is not, from a woman's point of view, 

 yet worn threadbare. 



The subject is not treated here scientifically, but 

 only as it struck a well-known Mem-sahib who has 

 taken part in almost every variation of sport in India. 

 It is simpler to use her own words, and I can vouch 

 for the truth of them, at the same time gently re- 

 minding the unbelieving critic that the wildest fiction 

 never yet eclipsed fact. 



We left Bangalore one day in the middle of last 

 April, J. and myself, in answer to a wire from Captain 

 F. at Secunderabad, " Arrangements for shoot complete" 

 which meant getting leave from the forest authorities, 

 police authorities, and a thousand-and-one minor 

 details. 



From Secunderabad a night journey got us to 

 Warungal station at two in the morning. We spent 

 the rest of the night uncomfortably in the waiting- 

 room, and as soon as it grew light were only too 

 glad to set off. I would impress upon every woman 



