Interesting story.

"Hunting" after jackal before breakfast.

Have read about it before. Another keenly pursued sport was pig sticking from horseback.

Being a dog lover I am not impressed by this:

In reply to:

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The hunting hounds were all trained at a kennel at Adyar. As it was impossible to keep these hounds during the unbearably hot summer season, they were generally disposed of before the onset of summer.

In view of this difficulty, the English hunters in Madras used to import about 50 couples of new hounds every year by ship in the month of August to be effectively used for hunting purposes till the end of March next year.

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Poor dogs and bastards of 'hunters'.