THE PRINCE I N INDIA
ItKCTKIt’S TIXKOKAMS. PRINCE GOES RENTING, lßeceived This Day at 9.40 ) DEI-HI. Nov. 'A. The Prince of Wales had his first experience of Indian Hunting he shape of a hock hunt with ch etd organised by the Gaekwar ot Brio a and Rajah of Kolhapur. R «as a 1 turesque sport, the hunters stalking bucks in camouflaged «arts, aceompai - ied bv leashed and blindfolded cheetahs. The latter were released when the game was near enough. The run seldom exceeds two hundred yards, which the cheetah covers with extraordinary swift ness and then drops from exhaustion. The bucks were frequently seen, but were too distant to chase. The Prime and some of the staff dismounted and tramped several miles over rough coun--trv. shot a buck and returned to Belinda. The Prince later departed for Pdaipur.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1921, Page 3
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138THE PRINCE IN INDIA Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1921, Page 3
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