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CONTENTS 



Introduction 



PAGB 



vii 



SPORT 



CHAPTER 



I. 



II. 



III. 



PART I 



IN THE BIG GAME JUNGLES OF INDIA 



The Jungles of Chota Nagpur 

 Happy Days as an Assistant . 

 Beating for Bear in Chota Nagpur — A Station 

 Shoot ....... 



IV. A Hunter's Paradise .... 



V. In the Berars — My First Tiger 

 VI. Shooting Trips in the Central Provinces — I 

 Fine Shikar Country .... 



VII. More Experiences in the Central Provinces 

 VIII. Forest Life and Sport in Eastern Bengal 

 IX. Wanderings in the Chittagong Hill Tracts 

 X. The Jungles of the Bengal Duars and Assam 

 XI. The Jungles of Southern India 

 XII. Sport in the Jungles of Northern India 



XIII. A Morning's Stalk after Black Buck 



XIV. The Havildah's Story 

 XV. Back in the Jungles Again 



XVI. An Adventure with a Leopard 

 XVII. Jungle Lore .... 

 XVIII^ Jungle Lore — continued . 

 XIX. A Real Tiger Story 



3 

 15 



30 



51 



68 



77 

 86 



97 

 III 



126 

 138 

 150 

 162 

 169 

 178 



193 

 200 

 216 

 227 



PART II 



GAME PROTECTION AND THE PROVISION OF SANCTU- 

 ARIES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE INDIAN FAUNA 



XX. The Indian Poacher and His Ways . . 241 



XXI. Game Sanctuaries and Game Protection in 



India ........ 256 



XXII. The Economic Value of the Fauna . . 282 



XXIII. The Preservation of the Indian Land Fauna 



as a Whole — The Permanent Sanctuary . 288 



