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a gun, with which to shoot some pigeons, through one of the hammers 
being defective. The charge shattered one foot and penetrated the 
lower part of the man’s body to such an extent that shot was passed 
for some days afterwards in the man’s stools. Eventually, however, 
he recovered with the loss of his foot. At the passage of the Beas a 
bullock slipped and broke a hind leg on coming out of a boat and had 
to be destroyed. 
Amongst the horses there were five simple cases of colic and four 
of fever; two horses had to be left at Umballa, one with a very badly 
sprained tendon and the other having fallen and been badly hurt 
marching into Umballa. This was a very wet march and the road in 
consequence slippery; three horses fell during it; both these horses 
have since rejoined the battery. There were three cases of galled 
withers, two in consequence of the front arch opening and one 
through carelessness. One occurred on the second march, the 3rd 
November, and was taken into work again on the 1 st April; another 
was nearly as bad and the third healed quickly. 
One Irish mare, who had played with the Woolwich Drag as a two- 
year-old, hunted regularly with the Hambledon as a three-year-old, 
came out here in 1890, had speared many a pig, taken many prizes for 
jumping, &c., and smelled powder at the battle of the Malakand Pass 
when, in the course of a so-called morning ride from Pindi, she 
had covered over 60 miles during the day, died of strangulation at 
Ghaziabad, aged 10 years. She was buried by the battery, who 
erected over her grave a roughly hewn granite stone inscribed “ Our 
Baby,” “B,” R.H.A., 13.1.97. 
The dryness of the year affected very materially the shooting en 
route. An Indian small game bag depends very largely on snipe, and 
these were very scarce, miles and miles of usually excellent snipe 
ground being quite dry. Altogether 1420 head were shot, including 
110 hares, 7 sandgrouse, 290 partridges, 85 quail, 13 geese, 332 duck, 
137 teal, 253 snipe, 6 black buck, &c. Two or three days pig sticking 
did not produce much sport. 
To the battery the famine was chiefly evidenced by the high prices, 
and the miles on miles of usually cultivated ground lying fallow. The 
Hindoo does not, as a rule, make a display of his sufferings; he prefers 
to drag himself to a corner and die. It was the common custom, how¬ 
ever, for crowds of women and children to sift the horses droppings for 
undigested grain, which was carried away to be used for food, and 
occasionally we saw this grain eaten on the spot with no preparation 
whatever. Sixteen marches from Lucknow we had to change the 
route, as we heard there were no supplies to be had at all on the 
original road intended and in two or three cases we had to get supplies 
sent down by train from big centres. 
Sport. 
Famine, 
