BULLET AND SHOT 



a cask of good water, mounted on a cart, should 

 accompany the camp. Twelve and a half miles 

 along the road beyond Antesunte, is the Karken- 

 kotta travellers' bungalow, in the forest of that 

 name. Within a few hundred yards of the high- 

 road flows the Cubbany river, in which mahseer 

 run to an enormous size, though they are very 

 "dour" to take, and, except by means of night- 

 lines, I have heard of no one having any real 

 success therein, with the single exception of Mr. 

 M., whose narrow escape from death at the horn 

 of a bison has been narrated when describing sport 

 with that animal. He had a coracle brought from 

 a long distance, and, fishing from it, secured some 

 magnificent mahseer, up to, if memory serves me 

 truly, sixty-two pounds in weight. 



Beyond the Cubbany river lies the Begur forest, 

 and to reach it from the Karkenkotta side, the river 

 must be crossed. This can be done by means of 

 a raft at a place called Nissen, only about a mile 

 from the Government road, the cart-track to it 

 diverging from the latter nearly half-way between 

 Antesunte and Karkenkotta. Carts must be taken 

 over unloaded, and the cart bullocks be either made 

 to swim, or taken over separately on the raft ; the 

 loads must also be similarly conveyed, and the carts 

 reloaded on the other side, so that the operation is 

 one which occupies a good deal of time. There 

 used to be a forest lodge at Nissen, and probably it 

 is still in existence. 



After leaving the Government road between Ante- 

 sunte and Karkenkotta, the Begur, Ainurmarigudi, 



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