Books on Big Game 



ships, or the biblical generations of the Jewish patriarchs. 

 The four books singled out for special reference are in- 

 teresting reading for any one; particularly the accounts 

 of the deaths of man-eating tigers at the hands of For- 

 syth, Shakespeare, and Sanderson, and some of Kin- 

 loch's Himalayan stalks. It is indeed royal sport which 

 the hunter has among the stupendous mountain masses 

 of the Himalayas, or in the rank jungles and steamy 

 tropical forests of India. 



Hunting should go hand in hand with the love of 

 natural history, as well as with descriptive and narrative 

 power. Hornaday's " Two Years in the Jungle " is 

 especially interesting to the naturalist; but he adds not a 

 little to our knowledge of big game. It is earnestly to 

 be wished that some hunter will do for the gorilla what 

 Hornaday has done for the great East Indian ape, the 

 mias or orang. 



There are many good books on American big game, 

 but, rather curiously, they are for the most part modern. 

 Until within the present generation Americans only 

 hunted big game if they were frontier settlers, profes- 

 sional trappers, southern planters, army officers, or ex- 

 plorers. The people of the cities of the old States were 

 bred in the pleasing faith that anything unconnected 

 with business was both a waste of time and presumably 

 immoral. Those who traveled went to Europe instead 

 of to the Rocky Mountains. 



There are good descriptions of big game hunting in 

 the books of writers like Catlin, but they come in inci- 

 dentally. Elliott's book on " Carolina Field Sports " is 

 admirable, although the best chapters are on harpooning 

 the devil-fish; and John Palliser, an Englishman, in his 



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