The Indian Forester August 1919

But ten years is only onfifth of the period claimed to be necessary and no evidence is adduced in the article in question to show that the rate of growth is constant and comparable to that of the first ten years during the remaining410 INDIAN FORESTER Au( forty years of the period ; nor that the removal of the cover say after 25. [...] The drivers went off about 9 A. M. and I sat u ith the other door men on the edge of the paddy-field called pathar " in Assam) near the end of the funnel. The first we heard of the drive was tile cracking of some bamboos just across the other side of the " pathar " and soon afterwards we heard the tatap of a dao on a tree. [...] There is a piece of ponky (marshy land between the end of the " pathar 7 and the stockade with enough cane to discourage a human from trying to get through and the first intimation we at the stockade had of the elephants was the sound of them coming through the ponk. [...] The herd had spent the night in the Bil to the south and on the far side of the hill. [...] They were up on the side of the hill to the east of the proper path and their course would have taken them round the end of the eastern funnel but for the stop in the machan tok-toking his bamboo instrument at the right moment precisely.