Archive image from page 171 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 CHAPTER XI THE JUNGLES OF SOUTHERN INDIA The jungles of Southern India—Description of country—Gotacamund— The Goty Hunt—A boar at close quarters—The river system— Denudation of forests—Cauvery Power Works—Game of the country —Malabar and Kanara—Dense jungles—Flora and hunting con- ditions—-A queer shikari and a bull bison—Anacondu, shikari— Malabar jungles at night—A morning sunrise-—A long trek after a great herd—Run into the bison—An impatient shikari—Wou
Archive image from page 171 of The diary of a sportsman. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India . diaryofsportsman00steb Year: 1920 CHAPTER XI THE JUNGLES OF SOUTHERN INDIA The jungles of Southern India—Description of country—Gotacamund— The Goty Hunt—A boar at close quarters—The river system— Denudation of forests—Cauvery Power Works—Game of the country —Malabar and Kanara—Dense jungles—Flora and hunting con- ditions—-A queer shikari and a bull bison—Anacondu, shikari— Malabar jungles at night—A morning sunrise-—A long trek after a great herd—Run into the bison—An impatient shikari—Wound a bull—Follow the trail—Typical jungle scenes—Come up with bull again—He again makes off—Dense bamboo jungle—The final tussle. THE fine jungles of Southern India cover a very considerable area of the great triangular tract of country situated to the south of the Nerbudda River. This territory comprises the Native State of Travancore, famed amongst shikaris for its glorious sporting possibilities ; the Annamallies and Palni Hills ; the Wynaad, Coorg, Malabar and Kanara Forests. East- wards the jungles stretch through Southern Mysore to Denkanicotta. The heavy forests fringing the Western Ghats run from Malabar northwards as far as Sangor in the Central Provinces, and those along the Eastern Ghats are also prolonged northwards on that side of the country to Sambalpur in the Central Provinces, and on into Chota Nagpur to the north-east. The Nizam's Dominions of the Great Haiderabad State are situated in the North Central portion of the triangle, and contain jungles which afford an asylum to most of the varieties of big game—an asylum in which the game conservancy policy undertaken for some 138
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