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"His wife who has hunted with
him in B.E.A., asked me to
lunch where I met her
husband. He has shot in
India an elephants during
our tiger & has killed 100 in
this way. His record of leopard
has been 200 which is the
highest in India. He has
however shot no elephants
or rhinoceros. At Darjeeling
he has bagged a very large
bear a black (hind awn) of
650 lbs, weight in the flesh.
He has kept very few of his early
trophies but his African
has been preserved by his wife.
The rifles he used are chiefly
470 Holland cordite x 350
Jeffry magnums which have
never failed him.
I visited another sportsman
also an invalid to an incurable
sort of paralyzing rheumatism.