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average rate of speed of four miles an hour by day, 

 and three miles an hour by night (including halts 

 for changing bullocks, and the delays and ob- 

 structions so dear to the native of India), may 

 be counted upon. 



Bullock-coach travelling is a lazy but comfort- 

 able means of progression, and, the conveyance 

 itself being commodious, a good many necessaries 

 can accompany the sportsman in his own carriage. 

 His carts, which will travel at a rate while marching 

 of only two miles per hour, will of course have 

 preceded him. Bullock-coaches can be hired from 

 Framjee, in Mysore, who also supplies soda-water 

 and general stores, though I should recommend a 

 visitor to purchase his tinned provisions and liquor 

 in Bangalore. It is probable that, with the com- 

 pletion of the railway extension from Birur to 

 Shimoga, coaches available for hire by the sports- 

 man will be located at the principal stations. 



Other good localities in southern India are 

 parts of the Coimbatore district, the Wynaad, 

 and the Travancore hills. 



The late Captain Forsyth in his charming book 

 The Highlands of Central India, General A. A. A. 

 Kinloch in his Large Game Shooting in Thibet 

 and Northern India, and Mr. Sterndale in 

 Sconce, have dealt with bison-shooting in the 

 Central Provinces, and on the Satpura range in 

 that part of India. 



Bison are to be found in Assam and Burmah, 

 and in fact in all sub- Himalayan tracts of forest 

 of sufficient continuity. 



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