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PREFACE 



UNGLE By- Ways in India," as the title 

 implies, deals with the great jungle tracts 

 of Hindustan, and with the animal life 

 they contain — the animal life, that is, as 

 known to the Shikari man. The observations 

 and incidents related, and the materials for the 

 rough sketches in the text, are extracted from 

 notes kept in the diaries which are the out- 

 come of sixteen pleasant and interesting years 

 spent in the Indian Forest Service. What merit 

 these sketches, from both pen and pencil, may 

 possess must be sought for in that atmosphere 

 which breathes through accounts of incidents 

 set down at the time of their occurrence, or 

 immediately after — an atmosphere which, as I 

 believe, is to be only attained in this manner. 



