SPORT AND TRAVEL IN 

 THE FAR EAST 



CHAPTER I 



MARSEILLES TO SINGAPORE..- /-V :. 



HEN, on the morning of the fifteenth of 

 September, 1902, the steamship India 

 of the Peninsular and Oriental Line 

 backed from her berth at Marseilles, 

 slipped through the crowded shipping along the 

 water-front, and, leaving behind the yellow cliffs, 

 the hot sun-baked houses of the town, and the grim 

 white walls of Monte Christo, steamed slowly out 

 into the cool Mediterranean, it seemed that nothing 

 was left to be desired in the pleasure of the prospect 

 before us. 



The anticipation of eighteen free mouths to be 

 turned to good account in seeing as much as possible 

 of foreign lands must at all times be most pleasing. 

 Especially is this so when the traveller plans, as we 

 had done, to combine a maximum amount of sport 

 with a minimum of stereotyped sight-seeing. For 

 several years the prospect of such travels had led me, 



