APPENDIX II 



THE SUNDERBUNDS 



" RAOUL " writes in the Indian Field: 



' I have read with interest your contributor 

 Simba's article on ' Tiger-Shooting in the Sunder- 

 bunds,' in your issue of the 25th November. 



" As all the shooting-ground alluded to by S. 

 is not far out from Port Canning, I am not surprised 

 that the game he mentions as having seen or heard 

 about was very limited. 



' Tigers are perhaps as plentiful now as they 

 were half a century ago. A few tigers are annual 1\ 

 killed by native ' shikarees ' for the sake of the 

 reward, and fewer still fall to the gun of the sports- 

 man of the West. The impenetrableness of the 

 cover and the difficulty of the ground make the 

 pursuit of these big felines a very difficult and 

 hazardous matter. Owing to the innumerable 

 number of creeks and water-ways, and the treach- 

 erous nature of the ground, elephants cannot 

 possibly be used in the Sunderbunds in the pursuit 

 of tigers. Most of these are to be found nowadays, 

 not in what I should call the middle Sunderbunds, 

 with its mangroves and forests of Soonder trees, 

 but where the ground is generally low and under 

 water during the flood-tides. A fair number 

 of tigers may also be found towards the more 

 northern parts of the Sunderbunds, bordering 



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