HINTS TO BEGINNERS 



Should the locality selected lie within the forests 

 of the low country, the sportsmen will find the 

 south-west monsoon the best time to go out bison 

 shooting. In Mysore, as has been already stated, 

 malaria practically ceases in that monsoon, and as 

 the amount of rain which falls during this period 

 is not excessive (except in portions of the Kadur 

 district), this season is an extremely pleasant one 

 for a forest outing. 



The 1 5th of June is a good day to fix for the 

 start, as the monsoon nearly always bursts before 

 that date, but I would not advise sportsmen to go 

 into the forests before the latter is fairly on, and 

 therefore before the heavy rain which ushers it in 

 has washed away the germs of malaria. 



I recommend the sportsmen to take one hill tent, 

 fourteen feet square, for themselves, and a rowtie 

 for their servants ; but, if luxuriously inclined, 

 they might take a second hill tent for their own 

 accommodation. 



In some places they will find forest lodges, and 

 they should ask the district forest officer to kindly 

 permit them to occupy these when he does not 

 personally require their use. An ample supply of 

 soda-water should be carried, and not a drop of 

 jungle water drunk unless it has, to the sportsman s 

 own knowledge, been boiled. 



Folding camp cots, standing as high from the 

 ground as can be procured, should be taken, as also 

 mosquito curtains of fine net, or, if the weather be 

 cool enough to admit of their use, then better still 

 of " Mul Mul." Without getting them specially 



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