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is supposed formerly to have reached 400 feet. The water 
was quite fit to use, so I brought back several bottles full, 
intending to take views of the Cashmere gate, &c . ; but a 
letter from the great tiger-slayer, before mentioned, warned 
me to return at once if I intended to join his tiger party on 
the 9th of March. 
Photography is great, but tiger hunting is greater ; so I 
left Delhi one Monday morning, and, travelling incessantly, 
reached Calcutta on the Saturday. Here I left all my 
apparatus, except a plate or two for the benefit of a dead 
tiger. This I accomplished, but after seven or eight hours* 
shooting on the top of an elephant even photography becomes 
a burden. 
Having been in at the death of seven tigers, I left Calcutta 
the first week in April, and I, with all my negatives — namely, 
fifty-five 11x9 inches, and six dozen stereoscopic — arrived 
in England towards the end of May. 
I cannot conceive anything more delightful than a photo- 
graphic tour in India — arriving out at the end of October, 
and returning in April. If a man’s health be good there is 
no difficulty in obtaining good pictures. In fact, one great 
source of failure in this country — dirty plates — scarcely exist 
in India. If a plate be washed with clean water, and rubbed 
dry, it is as clean as man can make it. According to my 
experience collodion cannot be too much shaken before use. 
I think it a great mistake to use a bottle which has been 
standing quiet for any length of time ; but I know plenty of 
learned photographers who hold the very opposite opinion. 
In conclusion, I venture to hope that photographers in- 
tending to pursue the art in India or other hot countries may 
find the foregoing remarks of service in the selection of appa- 
ratus and chemicals. 
