Sportsmen in purple

[527] The Count of Turin, the nephew of King Humbert, last year enjoyed some sport in the Far East, the thought of which must have caused that sporting monarch a pang of envy. In Ceylon, during January, the Count and party bagged in one season a brace of elephants, five buffaloes and a dozen crocodiles ; during a sojourn at Darjeeling two bears, a couple of leopards and a tiger contributed to the already bulky receptacle ; and a six-weeks shoot, under the auspices of the Maharajah of Cooch-Behar, further augmented it to the extent of twenty-five buffaloes, seven rhinoceroses, a black leopard and other small
game. In Assam the Royal sportsmen killed three rhinoceroses, seven buffaloes, a bison and two stags.