TWO YEARS IN THE JUNGLE 



WITH RIFLE AND KKLFE. 



PART I.— INDIA, 



CHAPTER I. 



THE JOURNEY TO INDIA. 



Objects of the Trip. — Boycotted in Ireland.— The Challenger Collections. — The 

 Liverpool Museum. — The British Museum. — From Paris to Rome. — Art 

 versus Nature. — Collecting at Naples. — The Zoological Station. — Alexan- 

 dria — The Nile Delta. — Cairo. — A Picnic to the Petrified Forest. — The 

 Author rides a Camel — Egyptian Fossils. — Through the Suez Canal. — A 

 Day at Jeddah. — Pilgrims and Strangers. — The Tomb of Eve. — The Red 

 Sea. — A Pleasant Voyage. — Bombay. 



] SHALL always believe I was bom under a lucky star as a com- 

 J)ensation for not having been bom rich. My greatest piece of 

 good luck came to me in 1876, when I was equipped for field work 

 in natural history and sent to the East Indies on a two years' hunt- 

 ing and collecting tour. True, I had spent two years in Professor 

 ^Vard's famous establishment at Rochester, hard at work learning 

 the art of taxidermy, and aU the methods employed in zoological 

 collecting. I had also made two trial trips as a collector in tropi- 

 cal America, so that taking all together, I had served a regular ap- 

 prenticeship under skilled instructors. 



Of course my trial trips were considered successful, else would 

 1 have been elected thereafter to remain at home in quiet comfort. 

 As it was, fortune smiled upon me, very broadly I thought, and in 

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