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we thought that, having once ourselves mistaken a tiger for a light- 

 coloured deer at some little distance off, it was our own stupidity, but 

 the author consoles us ; he says : — "At 300 or 400 yards off, more than 

 once I have mistaken a tiger for a light- coloured hind, until I have 

 brought the telescope to bear and seen my mistake." Col. Hamilton 

 accounts for his immunity from accidents with the many tigers he 

 has shot, to carrying out the advice given him by an excellent shikari, 

 a Seedee, named Eman, which was^ when shooting tigers on foot, 

 ''never, if you can possibly avoid it, fire at a tiger when tlie line of hia 

 body is towards pou" ; he gives another of Eman's wrinkles in Deer 

 stalking, to remain perfectly motionless the moment a deer catches 

 sight of you, as the least movement will send the animal away ; it 

 may be necessary to stand thus five or even ten minutes, but if you 

 do not move, the deer will commence feeding again ; you can then 

 approach nearer, doing so with the greatest caution, but the instant 

 the deer raises its head, you must be exactly in the same position you 

 were when it first saw you ; again you may have to wait, but each 

 time if you have not been seen to move, the animal will gain more 

 confidence ; a curious thing is that it does not appear to be aware 

 that you have reduced the distance by 100 or 200 yards. 



Chapter lY. is taken up with an account of a trip to Singapore, 

 Java, and Labuan. 



Chapter Y . treats of Bears, by one of which our author ■s\ as 

 slightly mauled ; there is also an amusing little sketch of a wounded 

 she-bear turning ou her cub, entitled, " I did not do it. Ma.-" 



Chapter YI. — Ibex shooting in the IS'eilgherries, &c. ; if we were 

 critical we might demur at the dignity title of Ibex. It contains 

 nothing of any particular interest to our mind, be it in the 

 Himalayas, Atlas or Neilgherries, the accounts of stalking and 

 shooting have a great sameness. 



Chapter YII. — Elephants ; the sketches in this chapter are admir- 

 able. One is, " I try to drive him home^ but only drive him furious " ; 

 our author rvms short of ammunition, which he appears occasionally 

 to do, and after blinding an elephant, he cannot finish him off, so 

 attempts to drive him near his camp by throwing stones at him, and 

 such like, from 10 a.m. to 5 p. m., when he gave it up, but found 

 the beast dead the next morning. 



