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Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-sports choose

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[Ind] J. Moray Brown Shikar Sketches 150: Nothing moved, however; but, on going up to the spot, what was my delight to find five snipe all quite dead, and packed into the hole as if in a nest! Needless to add, my native guide did not get the ‘bamboo backsheesh’ with which I was so nearly threatening him.
at bamboo baksheesh (n.) under bamboo, n.
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