India and Tiger-hunting

Colonel Barras passed more than a quarter of a century in the Indian army, lived in all sorts of quarters, made acquaintance with almost every species of aboriginal —both men and animals, and met with countless adventures, large and small, agreeable and disagreeable. This book will well repay perusal by any one interested in the pursuit of big game. Any man who has passed twenty-eight years of his life in India, like Colonel Barras, must have met with many and strange adventures, more especially when a large portion of that time has been spent in the jungle. It will surprise no one, therefore,, to learn that sporting incidents, such as tiger shooting, and wolf hunting with greyhounds, form the chief attraction of this work. The adventures which are here related lose none of their interest through being, as the author assures us, strictly veracious; and they are related in a manner at once interesting and instructive.

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