There were four of us, supported by seventeen gunbearers and porters.

Our battery consisted of four elephant guns, four heavy rifles, three light rifles, and four shotguns.

The latter were for grouse and the others were for incidental big game which one must always be prepared for, whether one goes out to shoot grouse or take snapshots with one's camera.
[Drawing: _The Grouse Hunt_] We spread out and beat two miles of perfect cover.

Then we beat it back again and finally, after all our Herculean efforts, one lonely bird flew up and was knocked over.

That was the astounding total of our slaughter and when the army marched back into camp with its one little grouse the effect was laughable in the extreme.