Sketches of Field Sports as Followed by the Natives of India with Observations on the Animals aslo an Account of some of the custom of the inhabitants, and nature productions, Interspersed with various Anecdotes. Likewise the Late Nawab Vizier Asoph Ul Dowlah’s Grand Style of Sporting and Character. A Description of the Art of Ctaching Serpents, as practised by people in India known by the appellation of Cunjoors, and their method of curing themself when bitten with The Remarks on Hydrophobia Rabid I Animal
Daniel Johnson, a surgeon who served in Bengal, published these accounts of Indian hunting, animals, snake-catchers and local customs in London in 1822 through Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, for British readers curious about the subcontinent. A soft-toned engraved frontispiece shows a river station with thatched huts, palms, a bamboo hoisting frame and dense foreground undergrowth — usable as landscape stock, foliage silhouettes and vignette framing.
