INTRODUCTION 



foot, i.e., shooting without the employment of 

 tame elephants, is practised. In Bengal, Assam, 

 Nepaul, the Bhootan dooars, and Burmah, the 

 sportsman who cannot command a number of 

 elephants has but little chance of success. 



The south appears on the whole to be more 

 prolific in large elephant tusks and fine bison heads 

 than is any other part of India, while, the forests 

 admitting of shooting on foot, the game can be 

 pursued under very pleasurable conditions. 



In so vast a continent, the whole gamut of 

 temperature is run through, from the fierce summer 

 heat of the Deccan and the Punjab, the compara- 

 tively temperate climate of the Mysore plateau, 

 the still cooler heights of the various hill ranges, 

 up to the abode of eternal snow on the lofty 

 Himalayas. 



The best country for tiger shooting on foot is 

 the Deccan, and the best season the hot weather 

 say from February ist till the end of April. The 

 most favourable season for the fine bison forests 

 of Mysore is the early part of the south-west 

 monsoon say from June i5th to the middle of 

 August. Oorial shooting on the Salt Range should 

 be attempted only in November, December, and 

 January, on account of the intense heat which 

 prevails there. The best months for Cashmere 

 are from April to the middle of June, after which 

 the sportsman should move on to the compara- 

 tively small portion of Thibet which is open to 

 him. From the middle of September to the end 

 of December is the most favourable time in which 



