H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES' SHOOTING IN INDIA 1097 
was not till the beat was over that I was able to climb up and look and found 
it, 15 yards further on, shot right through the heart. I paced out the range 
which was about 1 10 yards.” 
Setting out very early in the morning of this same day, the 6th of 
February, the Earl of Cromer and Lord Louis Mountbatten reached Bagha at 
about 8 a.m. This place, marked on the map (9), is 45 miles south-east of 
Kachnaria and at the bottom of the map on the extreme right. A few 
minutes after their arrival the beat started. Four tigers came out; 
two were bagged by Lord Cromer and two, on hearing the shots, broke away 
from the line of beaters. 
Sambhar and chital passed Lord Louis Mountbatten within shot, but he 
did not shoot at them as he was waiting for a tiger. From Bagha they motored 
to Majus (8) where they were joined by Commander Newport and Mr. Petrie 
who had gone out to Pipaliaghat but had had no luck, although imme- 
diately after the beat started a tiger was heard roaring close by. Unfortunately 
it did not pass the machans, and probably slipped away between the stops. 
No shot was fired in this Pipaliaghat beat. At Majus the beat started 
at about 2 p.m. A special machan was given to Lord Louis as he 
had had no luck at Bagha. Sambhar, chital, etc., came out. Eleven shots 
were fired at them by Commander Newport, Mr. Petrie and Lord Louis, 
but nothing fell to any body’s gun. 
Lord Louis Mountbatten thought that he had wounded a sambhar, so a 
search was made but with no result. 
Among the guests at Bhopal on the Royal Visit were members of the Cavalry 
School at Saugor who, with Colonel P. B. Sangster, their Commandant, came 
to play Polo with the Prince and they shot on several occasions with members of 
the staff. 
Admiral Halsey, Mr. Petrie, Captain Watkins and Captain Crichton motored 
out about 5 miles from the shooting camp and bad 3 beats for sambhar. 
They saw plenty of sambhar, at least 30, but there was not a suitable 
head amongst them. 
The Prince’s party, with which I was, arrived back at Kachnaria about 6 p.m. 
Gohig down to the skinning camp I saw that three tigers, one panther and one 
Nilgai had aheady arrived and, after the Prmce had inspected them, they were 
taken to the skinning camp and work on them was immediately commenced. 
The panther had been very badly hit. All the entrails were coming out 
and the skin was practically useless. 
The skinning camp was naturally looked on by the vultm’e community as their 
special meetmg place. Hundreds assembled, dropping out of space to the tasty 
and sumptuous feast below. The King vultm'e {Otogyps calims) with his con- 
spicuous zone of white feathers on the breast ; the long-billed brown vultme 
(Gyps indicus) with his fine white ruff ; the white backed vulture {Pseudogyps 
bengalensis) with his marked white rump, the commonest of all vultures in Central 
Lrdia, and “ Pharaoh’s chicken” (Neophron ginginianus) with his consequential 
waddling walk, a familiar figure in very cantonment in India. In addition to 
the tigers and panther which were already in the camp, 5 sambhar were shot 
this day, one by Colonel O’Kineally, one by Captain Bruce Ogilvie, two by 
members of the Cavalry School and one by an American whose name I have 
forgotten. 
The State band came doTOi to camp and played at and after dinner, greatly 
assisting certam terpsichorean efforts of the guests while adding materially to the 
entertainment of all. 
I had brought with me to camp two of Stuart Baker’s Game Bird books, one on 
‘‘Ducks and their A.llies” and the other on “Snipe, Bustard, etc.” These I showed 
to the Prince after dinner, and also to the heir-apparent of Bhopal who had quite 
