Author: CAMPBELL, COLONEL WALTER.
Title: My Indian Journal.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 484; b/w frontispiece with tissue guard; 6 other illustrations; color map on title page; index; title in gilt on spine; illustration in gilt on front board; rebound retaining original spine, front and back, new endpapers; foxing to pages and page edges; closed tear to page; a good copy. Edinburg, Edmonston & Douglas, MDCCCXIV [1864]. Excellent b/w illustrations by Noel Paton and Wolf include pair of Ibex and Sambar. Author travels by Elephant, boat, canoe [which he trades for an old dressing gown] and other means through storm and tempest while hunting and studying animals and natives. The ladies from on board gather shells from the Andaman Islands. Interesting insights into snake charming ways of measuring tigers and methods of hunting from Elephant, spearing from horse back, tree stand or with beaters also Indian Bison, Pig, Sambar, Ibex, snakes, bears, panthers hunting and more. A vain attempt to save a Widow placed on her husbands funeral pyre and the execution of mutineers by being tied across the muzzle of a 12 pound gun.

Keywords: natural history india hunting british empire negrito pigmy andaman islands tiger sambur sambar ibex elephant scotland