CHAPTER XXIV. 



FISHING LOCALITIES. 



I am, Sir, a brother of the angle." — 



Izaak Walton. 



In my first edition I wrote: — "This appendix is necessarily a mere 

 " skeleton, because it is unavoidably the result of only one 

 "individual's knowledge, and public officers in India have not 

 " leisure and express trains in all directions to aid them in explor- 

 " ing different fishing localities. In full knowledge, however, of its 

 " meagreness, it is, nevertheless, introduced more as a provocation 

 " than any thing else, for other fishermen to throw together their 

 " local knowledge, and perhaps some day make up a useful com- 

 " pilation like ' The Angler's Diary.' " And recently I sought the 

 aid of the " Asian," the editor of which was good enough to support 

 my request to anglers most cordially. Kindly have anglers responded, 

 some in its columns, some direct to myself. I must commence 

 this Chapter, therefore, with acknowledgments, especially to 

 "Doon,"and the editor of the "Asian," and I would mention others, 

 but that I am not quite sure that I am free to publish names. 

 With the kind permission of the editor of the "Field" I have 

 gleaned also in those pages. The list of fishing localities, though 

 much amplified by these means, is doubtless capable of being more 

 than doubled in so vast a continent as India, and if anglers will 

 continue to help, and my book lives to a Third Edition, they shall 

 find the advantage of it in an ampler record of localities. I shall 

 be glad, too, to be set right wherever I have made any errors in 

 spelling, etc., through want of local knowledge. 



The best maps that a stranger can buy for his guidance as to 

 whereabouts are the Government Survey Maps, always procurable 

 at very cheap rates from the offices of the Surveyor-General of 

 India, at Hehra Dhunand at Calcutta; and proba bly through any 

 liookseller, 1 nit — 



