Jungle By -Ways in India 



in India, in Northern India and Assam, for in- 

 stance, where if one wishes to obtain sport it has 

 to be from the top of an elephant, and many of us 

 can look back to many pleasant hours passed on 

 the pad in company with a keen mahout and 

 staunch elephant. 



At all times is the grass jungle and tree forest 

 beautiful under such conditions. At the end of 

 the monsoon, whilst the grass jungle is still very 

 high and dense, but few and very rapid glimpses 

 of the numerous animals it contains can be ob- 

 tained. But what a wonderful sight is this grass ! 

 Each great clump of slender stems shoots up 

 from a centre and droops over in a graceful 

 curve at a height of some fifteen feet or more, 

 whilst straight up from their midst rear the beauti- 

 ful flower heads, a delicate nodding mass of pink 

 and yellow pendulous feathery tassels. Like some 

 vast and giant garden is the grass jungle at this 

 period and very beautiful to be out in. With life 

 it positively swarms and teems. 



At every stride of the elephant, pea-fowl with 

 their gorgeous plumage, jungle-fowl, many of them 

 brilliantly coloured knowing old cocks, partridges, 

 grey and black, and quail of several kinds get up 

 and offer most tempting shots. 



Or again in the high forest the trees, so far as 

 their foliage goes, are seen at their best perhaps 

 after the long rains, whilst great creepers hang 

 down in giant festoons, flinging themselves from 



