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Forest Life and Sport in India

1910

In those days the Motipur sal forests on the high ground were fulLof game and the lowlands stretcing away to the Sarda River in the west and the Girwa River in the north were called by tire natives the home of the wild beasts." Nishangara stood on a bluff in the centre of this sportsman's pal-adise overlooking the plains and a snug double-storied house that I erected now replaces the ea [...] To them all noises of the jungle are signals; they detect the difference between the sound of the dry twig breaking in the breeze or accdentally under the careful foot of the intruder and the alarm note of the largest beast or of the smallest bird uttered for the benefit of its kind conveys its warning ; -White in addition to these safeguards there are 'the senses.of sight and scent which ro [...] But the.pleasufe of lning„awake Ivfore.thedawn and of wandering cautiously ill! the dewy grass beefore the fallen leaves are dry of sighting perhaps at a distance a shadowy form stealing towards the broken ground in the north of hurrying to intercept it and then the careful shot and the slowreturn to camp gaining as you go some new knowledge of the jungle these are the joys of the wandere [...] There can however be no quKtion as to the exhilaration of camping at high elevations of the beauties of the white outlines cut kihar ply against the indigo blue of the passing darkness of the rosy tints 711 daiwn of the keen sunlight of midday of the shadowy lights of evening and of the intense brilliance of the night ;'they are each and all incoparable so tlat whether you wander beneat [...] The wild-elephant when in a herd is perhaps the noisiest of the jungle animals for the reason proably that he.has no feir of other beasts and little of man ; and so it is that when the.mothers cease from trumpeting and gurgling and the calves from squeaing an d squeaking there is yet the constant sound of the breaking of bamboos or of the oveAurning of the clu'mps in order that the youn
tourism leisure sport
Pages
367
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142121
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot view
Chapter I Introductory
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Chapter II Early Days in Oudh
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Chapter III Work and Sport in the North-Western Provinces
55-93 unknown view
Chapter IV on the Habits of Tigers
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Chapter V Conservators’ Work
111-137 unknown view
Chapter VI Conservators’ Work
138-165 unknown view
Chapter VII Foresters’ Life in Burma and the Andaman Islands
166-209 unknown view
Chapter VIII the Work of the Inspector-Generae of Forests
210-227 unknown view
Chapter IX Jaunsar; the Sundarbans; Darjeeling and the Bengal Tarai
228-242 unknown view
Chapter X the Sutlej Valley; the Central Provinces and Oudh
243-265 unknown view
Chapter XI Kashmir and Assam
266-283 unknown view
Chapter XII Kulu; Madras; Bombay and Ceylon
284-312 unknown view
Chapter XIII Conclusion
313-321 unknown view
Index
322-324 unknown view
Backmatter
1-20 unknown view

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