SIGHT AND SUNLIGHT.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to the sight of Orientals living in a climates possessing a bright sun and a glaring soil, I may instance what I myself observed in the Punjaub. A Sikh who often accom- panied me snipe and duck-shooting, astounded me by his keen- ness of sight. I have excellent sight myself, and can, at the age of fifty, read the smallest print of the eyesight-test-tables far beyond the prescribed distance ; but the impression I gathered then was that this man's sight was to my own in the proportion of an ordinary opera glass to ordinary sight. On one occasion, he followed with his eyes a wounded wild duck, as it disappeared iu the hot haze, so long after it was lost to my view, that had he not actually picked it up, as well as announced its fall, I should have deemed its still being visible to him incredible. I have always regretted that I did not pace the distance, which was
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