POSTSCRIPT. 



Owing to the negatives of the Illustrations of my original ist Volume having unfortu- 

 nately been lost or destroyed, much delay has occurred in bringing out the present work ■ 

 and many months have elapsed since my MSS. were first placed in the hands of the pub- 

 lishers. The present Illustrations, which have been reproduced from the originals by a new 

 and beautiful process, are, in my opinion, so good, that I personally do not regret the delay. 



During the past year I have enjoyed unusually good sport, and I am tempted to add an 

 account of my recent adventures to what I fear is already a rather too lengthy record of 

 my own doings. 



In March last, accompanied by a brother Officer, I went to the borders of the Bikanir 

 desert, about ninety miles south of Ferozpur, to see if we could manage to shoot some of 

 the long horned Black Buck, for which that district is famous. We found Antelope 

 extremely numerous, and although they had lately been a good deal disturbed by another 

 sportsman, they were by no means wild. 



We might have shot a great number had we fired at all that came in our way, but we 

 restricted ourselves to shooting only those that bore good heads. In the course of six days 

 I bagged fourteen fine buck, while my companion killed nine or ten, his best pair of horns 

 measuring twenty-six inches in length. I was still more fortunate, and procured one of the 

 finest heads that I have ever seen. 



I had observed a very black old buck lying by himself on a plain, and had attempted to 

 approach within shot without success, but by good luck a herd of does came up from another 

 direction, and as they passed near me the buck joined them. In their society he lost some 

 of his caution, and I eventually obtained a fair broadside shot as he was walking after the 

 does at a distance of about a hundred and fifty yards. 



The bullet laid him low, and on walking up I at once saw that I had secured a prize. 

 The measuring tape was soon laid along his horns, and I had the satisfaction of finding that 

 they measured exactly twenty-six and three-quarter inches. 



On a subsequent day I came across an immense herd, whose numbers I computed to be 

 not less than fifteen hundred. 



They extended in a broken string from one horizon to the other, and the proportion of 

 Black Buck was unusually large. Conspicuous among them was a magnificent buck the 

 length of whose horns far exceeded any that I have ever seen, and I believe that I am quite 

 within the mark when I estimate them at not less than twenty-nine inches. 



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