26th March, IQ12, 



Professor Lindsay, President, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. 

 in the Chair. 



BIG GAME SHOOTING IN INDIA.' 



By Captain Sleeman, F.R.G.S. 



{Abstract). 



C^APTAiN Sleeman, who was cordially received, said his 

 family for three generations had been pretty closely associated with 

 India, and his grandfather. General Sleeman, was remembered as 

 the exterminator of thuggee, that monstrous superstition of 

 murder, which, it was computed, had cost the lives of a couple of 

 millions of people. The lecturer then went on to deal with the 

 art and practice of big-game hunting as especially applied to 

 tigers, panthers, and bears. The Captam, it may be mentioned, 

 is a mighty hunter, fit to rank with Baker and Selous, and he 

 mentioned incidentally that his Indian spoils embrace some 

 twenty varieties of big game, while of four records which he had 

 made while following the sport one of the most remarkable was 

 three bears with three shots inside twelve seconds. Captain 

 Sleeman has slain tigers by the score, panthers by the dozen, bears 

 by the hundred. He has hunted Mr. Stripes upon elephants, 

 equipped sometimes with pad, sometimes with howdah ; he has 

 waited for him in the fork of a tree with a hve bait in the shape of 

 goat or pig tied up close by ; he has watched by a river bank for 

 him to return to a ''kill" of the previous night, and he has 

 followed his tracks on foot right into the jungle. He gave some 

 interesting facts about the life history of tigers and panthers and 

 bears before detailing the special measures employed in compassing 



