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of its large tidal branches, and at the widest part they were six 
hours in the water without touching the bottom. After resting for 
some time on a sandbank, they again took the water, and swam 
for three hours more, completing the journey in safety. 
Mr. Sanderson’s experience in: the pursuit and capture of wild 
elephants, and the success of the method employed by him, enables 
him to speak as familiarly of catching a herd of elephants as a 
poacher would speak of driving partridges into a tunnel-net, or 
a fen-man of taking widgeon in a decoy. He once took fifty-three 
elephants in one “ drive” ! 
But his book is not merely a record of sport, although it 
abounds with well-told adventures. It gives also some account 
of the natural history of the wild animals met witb, and the reader, 
besides learning a good deal about forest life in India, obtains a very 
fair insight into the character, manners, and customs of the natives, 
amongst whom the author has lived so many years, and upon 
whose assistance he has had so largely to rely in carrying out his 
successful, though often dangerous, expeditions. “The peculiar 
opportunities,” he says, “ which have been afforded him of following 
his natural inclinations, and, by the nature of his duties, of 
encountering the wild animals of Southern India and Eastern 
Bengal, induced him to believe that his experiences might be of 
some interest to the general public, and perhaps of some service 
to the cause of Natural History.” We think there can be no doubt 
that both the classes of readers referred to will highly appreciate 
his undertaking. 
Although we have alluded in detail to only one of the large 
animals of which the book treats, the chapters on the others 
possess almost equal interest, not only on account of the information 
imparted concerning the range, habits, and instincts of the species 
mentioned, but also for the useful statistics and hints with which 
the narrative is interspersed, and which cannot fail to be of service 
to sportsmen in India. 
The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and 
Rural Life... Post 8vo, pp. 216. London: Smith, Elder 
and Co. 1878. 
Tus pleasantly written book, by an anonymous author, com- 
mends itself to three classes of readers—to the inexperienced 
