GAME BOOK & HUNTING DIARY, India 1889-90 and 1900-11. Treach...

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GAME BOOK & HUNTING DIARY, India 1889-90 and 1900-11. Treacher's Shikar Diary and register of large and small game shot, speared or hunted in India. About 30 pages of entries recorded by one TM Kirkwood. As well as small game, kills include bustards, wolves, panthers and bears. Limp cloth, badly damp marked and in poor condition, but all entries are legible. With a folio Shikar Diary with the name TM Kirkwood on the front cover, recording his shooting adventures from 1900-11. Circa 68 pages of handwriting with numerous newspaper cuttings and notes inserted. The following entry is fairly typical: "21 January 1911. 1 mugger (Indian crocodile) 6'9". Shot the mugger at about 50 yards distance, he was in midstream, only showing his head. I blew off the back of his head with a .500 Express Bullet; he floated for a few seconds stomach up and then sank. I sent one and a half miles for a boat down towards the railway bridge and found him lying dead on his back in about 4 1/2 feet of water". Half calf, rubbed but sound. A few leaves detached. Lt-Col Thomas Moore Kirkwood (1865-1933) was born in Ireland and served in the Indian Army in the 97th Deccan Infantry. He served in Tibet in 1903-04 and died in Ireland in 1933. (2)