FORESTS OF MYSORE DISTRICT 



one may enter a State forest for any purpose what- 

 soever except that of shooting. Thus, any idle, 

 loafing vagabond, who dislikes work, can, by shoot- 

 ing, say, even two or three hinds or does in a 

 month (he probably shoots a good many more), 

 and by selling the meat, earn far more money than 

 he could do by honest labour. When once game 

 has been so diminished in quantity as to render this 

 province a barren field for sport, the stream of 

 rupees from outside, now annually flowing into the 

 country from sportsmen who visit it for shooting, 

 will necessarily be diverted to other parts. 



From a sportsman's point of view, the forests of 

 Mysore may be conveniently classified as (i) State 

 deciduous, (2) District deciduous, (3) Fuel, and 

 (4) Evergreen. 



THE FORESTS OF THE MYSORE DISTRICT 



The forests of the Mysore district belonging to 

 class i form a continuous belt along the Malabar 

 frontier. They are the forests of Metikuppe, 

 Karkenkotta, Begur, Ainurmarigudi, Berrambadie 

 and Bandipur, which last, however, is situated 

 partly on the frontier of the Nilgiri district. The 

 first of these, viz., the Metikuppe forest, is about 

 forty-six miles distant from the town of Mysore, 

 i.e., some ten miles beyond the travellers' bungalow 

 of Antesunte, which is thirty-six miles from the 

 capital, on the high-road to the western coast. 

 To shoot this forest, a tent should be pitched at 

 Bissalwaddie, and if during the hot and dry weather, 

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