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Identifier: sportsmansbookfo1904afla (find matches)
Title: The sportsman's book for India
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918, ed
Subjects: Sports -- India
Publisher: London, H. Marshall & Son
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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nd not by that of the visitors; theother members have their duties to do besideslocal amusements and sports, so that a man whocomes to a station for pig-sticking alone wouldhardly view a ten days break in the hunting withthe same complaisance as he who, besides hiswork, could have his three days polo a week.On the other hand, in a keen club, every avail-able opportunity for hunting is taken, and athrusting visitor would be likely to get asmuch hunting as his stud and he cared for. Inthe selection of your club you must be guided byyour own inclination and by your purse. It isimpossible to give any certain information as tothe vitality of any particular club at any givenmoment, but anyone in India can readily ftnd itout: it depends entirely on the garrison at thetime. In some regiments every man hunts ; inothers, literally not one. If, however, a manprefers being independent of a tent club, he cancombine with friends and hunt some districtwhich for some reason is not being worked at the
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A 34-INCH Boar PIG-STICKING 313 time, or one which is not under a tent club. Todo this, the party must contain some organiser. Hunting in-who will have previously arranged for a shikari of Qubs^^and his assistants, and who knows the country tobe a good one. Then, indeed, he can hunt sevendays a week as long as the party and horses holdout. I once joined a party of this sort, intendingto hunt for sixty consecutive days. This partywas never at any one time more than five strong,and we never had less than 100 horses In camp.Owing to accidents and the consequent changesof spears, we had eventually had eight menthrough our camp, and we had to return home atthe end of thirty days, because we had not asingle man capable of getting on a horse, andhardly a horse capable of being hunted withouta few days rest. We had, however, a bag of100 real good boar. Moreover, although enthu-siasts to a man, we had all had too much of it.The point that I wish to make Is, that I thinkfifteen days hunting a m

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