70 INDIAN BIG GAME 



To the west of us lay the Malay Kadu about 

 1000 feet below. This is a jungle of coarse long 

 grass, in the rains growing to the height of ten 

 feet ; except on the banks of streams where ever- 

 green trees grew, the majority were deciduous, 

 and for a couple of months, especially after the 

 grass fires, the trees would have a bare, spectre- 

 like appearance. I have done very little shooting 

 in the Malay Kadu. Only three months in the 

 year are good for shooting, the grass being too 

 long at other times. The elephant and bison 

 could be met at all seasons in this jungle. 



The third type was the Naad or low country, 

 which lay to the east, and could be reached 

 by following a bridle-track for seven miles ; this 

 could be ridden nicely the whole way except 

 where the road zigzagged at the steepest part 

 near the foot of the hills, and then I only got 

 off the pony going down ; I always rode up the 

 zigs. This was the country I liked best of all 

 for shooting and in which I got the most and 

 best sport. 



On the road down the first sign of change was 

 the teak, and lower still you entered the bamboo. 

 Except for the first three miles where the road 

 led through the virgin jungle I mentioned before, 

 it wound along the side of grass hills. The 

 scenery was grand ; on the one side your eye 

 would travel for miles over nothing but grass-clad 

 sloping hills, many of them capped with virgin 

 jungle. The road followed a mountain torrent. 

 You crossed it by a bridge about four miles 

 from the bungalow, left it on the right, unseen 

 but within sound, until you reached the lower 



