LETTER XL SAMBHALPUR BISON 

 NEPAL 



SIMLA, May igth, 1910. 



MY spring tour has been a broken one. I left 

 Calcutta on April ist immediately after the 

 Budget was passed, and went to Sambhalpur for 

 a week. I had to return to Calcutta for some 

 official and business interviews, and could not 

 make a long stay in the Mufassal. On arrival 

 at Sambhalpur I drove to a camp which my friend 

 Moberly had established some thirty miles out, 

 and there met for the first time his wife, an 

 attractive and most companionable woman. I 

 should think she must be an ideal Mufassal wife, 

 for she managed everything admirably on a 

 perfectly comfortable but economical basis and 

 was never at a loss nor out of temper. My knee 

 was too painful and water-logged to admit of any 

 walking, and I had little, if any, hope of being able 

 to do any shooting. In the evening Moberly 

 casually mentioned that " a very unusual thing 

 had occurred : a small herd of bison had appeared 

 in this neighbourhood." Now, what I want 

 particularly to do (but see but little chance of 

 doing) is to shoot a bison. First of all there are 

 not many left, secondly they are very shy, and 

 thirdly the only way to get them is to stalk them 

 on foot, sometimes for several days continuously. 



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