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CHAPTER XV 



TIGER 

 By MAJOR C. S. CUMBERLAND 



AT the foot of the Himalayan range roughly 

 from Dehra in the Punjab down to Assoun runs a 

 belt of forest and swamp, for big game of all sorts 

 one of the finest hunting-grounds of the world. Of 

 course, like every other part of India, it is now not 

 what it used to be in the days of the muzzle-loader. 

 Tigers there are, and elephants, in considerable 

 numbers ; for as long as the jungle remains, the 

 former, owing to the difficulty of hunting them in 

 the dense forest and swamp regions that they fre- 

 quent, will never be exterminated. Elephants, no 

 doubt, would soon go, but as they are strictly pre- 



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