The Prince of Wales does not appear much delighted with
his first introduction to Indian sport. He was, to judge from the telegrams, bored with the hunting of deer by trained leopards, a cruel sport, interesting only for the wonderful speed attained for a few hundred yards by pursuer and pursued. A trained cat and a hare would show as much sport. He did not succeed, again, in the " pig-sticking," as it is called in India— the hunt of the wild boar—which is a both exciting and manly sport, as the beast is a public nuisance, and has, more- over, a fair chance of killing you. On the first day the boars kept out of the way, and on the second the Prince insisted on riding an English horse, a splendid animal, but entirely un- used to the particular sport, and of course outdone by any trained Arab present. He has seen an elephant-fight, a strange spectacle, but with no more sport about it for the spectator than a prize- fight, and has still to take part in the one really noble sport of India, a tiger-hunt. As he has started for Colombo, he will see this first in Bengal.
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