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Source: Following the Equator by Mark Twain (1898)

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Note: The author's name is the pseudonym of an unknown hunter who wrote an account of lion-hunting in Haryana in 1833. You can read it here, The Bengal Monthly Sporting Magazine and Bengal Register vol. 1
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Source: Jaipur and Its Environs by Harnath Singh Dundlod (1970)

Source: The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India, translated by Wheeler Thackston (1999)

Source: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O74043/...

Sources:

1) The Highlands of India: Vol. II, Being a Chronicle of Field Sports and Travel in India by D. L. F. Newall (1887)

2) The Rifle in India: Being the Sporting Experiences of an Indian Officer by Lt. Col. L.L. Fenton (1923)

Just a few more days and you'll have all of them to read whenever you want to.

The way this record is written, I've always wondered if we can trace them later in life in German records. But yes, poor cubs indeed 😔

Source: My Sporting Memories: Forty Years with Notebook & Gun by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt (1923)

Full account if you're interested.