BULLET AND SHOT 



the same name. In the Naganipur jungles, tigers 

 as well as panthers are to be found, and I have had 

 sport there with both. 



THE FORESTS OF THE KADUR DISTRICT 



The Kadur district is reached by rail from 

 Bangalore, whence a journey of about ten hours 

 takes the traveller to the town of Kadur. From 

 this, the district headquarters Chickmaglur is 

 twenty-five miles distant, but if the traveller's 

 destination be the large bison forests, he should 

 not get out at Kadur, but go on by rail to Birur 

 a few miles further down the line. 



The Kadur district, in its western extremity, 

 includes a portion of the Western Ghauts (a high 

 hill range), in which bison abound, and where they 

 can be stalked when out grazing on the grassy 

 opens which alternate with the densely jungled 

 sholahs. In this part, and also in some other 

 portions of the district, evergreen forests are found. 

 Before attempting an expedition upon the Ghauts, 

 however, the sportsman should make the acquaint- 

 ance and engage the good-will of some of the 

 planters in this district a very fine set of hospit- 

 able, manly, good fellows without whose kindly 

 aid he could do little or nothing there, and who, 

 he must remember, have to live in the country, and 

 are dependent for sport upon the game in the 

 vicinity of their estates, in which they therefore 

 possess a vested interest. 



The principal low-country forests of this district 



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