. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. Hunting; Game protection. H.^. THE JUNGLES OF CHOTA NAGPUR 7 test sooner or later ended in the defeat of the jungle man and his departure for the outskirts of the great forest tracts, where he had a better chance of combining, through greater numbers, against animal foes ; although he was here certain to suffer more from the depredations of the human sharks who found him such easy prey. ^ yfCJ^'";:^ Such was the history of the /^-^yj.^/if^yA clearing, and in the course of my wanderings in these jungles I came across others. Some, relapsed in
. The diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. Hunting; Game protection. H.^. THE JUNGLES OF CHOTA NAGPUR 7 test sooner or later ended in the defeat of the jungle man and his departure for the outskirts of the great forest tracts, where he had a better chance of combining, through greater numbers, against animal foes ; although he was here certain to suffer more from the depredations of the human sharks who found him such easy prey. ^ yfCJ^'";:^ Such was the history of the /^-^yj.^/if^yA clearing, and in the course of my wanderings in these jungles I came across others. Some, relapsed into forest conditions once more, were already covered with a fine crop of thriving young sal poles, the size of the latter enabling a shrewd guess to be made as to the date the former occupiers of the clearing had vacated it or all died of fever. For this tract of country holds a deadly malaria in its forests throughout the rainy season. To return to the bison. The tracks skirted the clearing and proceeded through a thick piece of forest beyond until they reached a beautiful little stream, the Koina. Up this stream we quietly pro- ceeded for about a mile, a succession of lovely views opening out before us. The stream at this part was of fair size, and for the most part flowed over a rock-bed. Consequently cataracts, rapids and miniature waterfalls, alternating with deep, silent pools, most tempting to the eye of the fisherman, were numerous. Or again we came to places where the stream flowed in a long, silent reach between terraces clothed here and there with beautiful brakes or clumps of the feathery bamboo, interspersed with the great red columns of magnificent, giant, old sal trees, upon which the morning light played with an indescribably beautiful effect. The great trees were festooned with thick ropes of creeper growth, whilst beneath, in glades where the forest floor was more open, the short grass was in places almost reminiscent of the soft, deep, velvety turf of a home
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