1 68 Leaves from an Indian Jungle. 



complimentary to the district officials, who ought to have 

 known of and taken measures to repress them. 



A few years ago it was the lot of the writer to discover 

 an agency for the wholesale slaughter of big game in a 

 certain district. 



After tracing it so far as he was able, he brought it to the 

 notice of sportsmen, through the medium of the then lead- 

 ing sporting newspaper on the Calcutta side, as follows : 

 EXTERMINATION OF INDIAN GAME. 



Yet another appeal to sportsmen to be merciful, and 

 refrain from slaughter, in a leading article, entitled * The 

 Extermination of Wild -Life,' printed in the of Septem- 

 ber 1 8th, and an appeal that is no doubt a necessary 

 one. Only in the last batch of English newspapers 

 I notice in the columns of Black and White the repro- 

 duction of a photograph, accompanied by an effusion from 

 'A Sportsman,' who brags of having in nine years killed 

 eight thousand head of Indian and Burmese game ! 



At the same time there are other forces at work, steadily 

 diminishing the game of our Indian plains and forests. The 

 British sportsman is not so entirely to blame as one might 

 be led to think by the number of complaints and hints of 

 butchery laid at his door. In the hope, therefore, that 

 attention may be drawn to the existence of a destructive 

 agency, the effects of which are far deeper and more search- 

 ing than those of any white man's shikar, I shall endea- 

 vour to arouse the interest of sportsmen in this direction. 



If only some concerted and combined action could be 

 arranged, it might be possible to bring some influence to 

 bear in the proper quarter, so that preventive measures 

 might be taken, as will be suggested hereafter. 



Lately I had the pleasure of contributing to the 

 an account of a two-months' shooting expedition 



