slightly different form in an earlier book of mine, now out of print.
F. H.
_London, 1921._
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
An ideal form of travel for the elderly--A claim to roam at will in print--An invitation to a big-game shoot--Details of journey to Cooch Behar--The commercial magnate and the station-master--An outbreak of cholera--Arrival at Cooch Behar Palace-Our Australian Jehu--The shooting camp--Its gigantic scale--The daily routine--"Chota Begum," my confidential elephant--Her well-meant attentions--My first tiger--Another lucky shot--The leopard and the orchestra--The Maharanee of Cooch Behar--An evening in the jungle--The buns and the bear--Jungle pictures--A charging rhinoceros--Another rhinoceros incident--The amateur Mahouts--Circumstances preventing a second visit