Being the only sahib present I had all the "fun of the fair" to myself, but always regretted the want of a companion to share it with me.
As to wild game, there were lots of jungle fowl (original stock of our familiar barn-door cocks and hens), a few pigeons, Argus pheasants, small barking deer, pigs, sambur, barrasingha, metnas, crocodiles, leopards, tigers, bears and elephants; but I had little time for shooting and it was expensive work, the jungle being so thick that riding elephants were quite necessary.

If keen enough, one could sit all night on a machan in a tree near a recent "kill," on the chance of Stripes showing himself; but it never appealed to me much, that kind of sport.

If a tiger was raiding the cattle I would poison the "kill" with strychnine.

In this way I secured several very fine animals, getting two at one time, so successfully poisoned that their bodies actually lay on the dead bullock.

One time I shot an enormous python, some eighteen feet in length, which took several men to carry home.