BULLET AND SHOT 



I know not ; but a timely request, addressed to 

 the Private Secretary to H.H. the Maharanee 

 Regent, for permission to shoot in the reserve 

 (even should it still exist) would probably be 

 granted. 



All the above-mentioned forests, with the single 

 exception of Begur, which, owing to the great 

 preponderance of bamboo therein, is good only for 

 elephants, are excellent ground for the sportsman, 

 bison being plentiful in them. 



Another considerable tract of forest is that 

 which extends from Atticulpoor, in the Chamraj- 

 Nagar taluq of the Mysore district, to the Mysore 

 boundary upon the Billiga-Rungun hills. 



Atticulpoor is about forty-five miles from Mysore 

 on the Coimbatore road. Now that coffee planta- 

 tions have been opened upon the Billiga-Rungun 

 hills, the shooting upon the latter is no longer 

 what it once was, and this tract is also much 

 poached by native shikarries. 



The jungle men inhabiting those hills are called 

 Sholagas, and though some of them are useful 

 assistants to the sportsman, they will neither eat 

 the flesh of a bison, nor even bring in the head 

 of a slain bull. 



Personally, I much prefer to shoot bison where, 

 as in the case of the forests previously mentioned, 

 the jungle men will prevent any waste of the flesh 

 by cutting it all up and drying it in strips for future 

 use, the whole of the carcass being thus utilised. 



These forests contain timber trees of many 

 valuable species, chief in value amongst which 



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