20 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



ously passing by is truly of extraordinary interest. 

 But ascend the hill to Fort Canning at evening, and 

 look down on the great city spread out below, where 

 like myriads of fireflies the fourteen thousand rick- 

 shaws of the town, each with its lantern, flit here 

 and there in the haze of an eastern twilight. Then 

 will you know the truest charm of Singapore. 



At last, after many delays, Wheeler and Perry 

 arrived from Hongkong. They had had marvel- 

 lously good sport in the cave-country about Amoy, 

 both having bagged tigers and at one time having 

 seen four animals break cover simultaneously. 

 This to me was the best of news, not only in the sat- 

 isfaction it gave me to learn of their success, but also 

 because hitherto, although hoping most earnestly 

 that we should run across the sport somewhere, I 

 had been vague and rather sceptical as to where 

 and how it was to be found ; and now the prospect 

 of eventually securing good tiger-shooting myself 

 seemed assured. As will be seen, however, it was 

 not until a full year later that my ambition was 

 finally realized. 



To attempt to describe the various hunting-trips 

 which we considered during the fortnight of our 

 stay in Singapore would be but a waste of words. 

 It is sufficient to say that expeditions into French 

 Cochin China, the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, 



