6 MODERN PIG-STICKING 



less importance, but because in the wide continent 

 of India it is impossible to do justice to them all. 



However, of five Tent Clubs and considerable 

 country that I know well I will try for an instant 

 to describe to you the country that I know and love 

 the best. 



That is the Meerut Kadir on the Ganges. The 

 word " Kadir " simply means bed of a river. 

 Almost any Indian river may, and does, have its 

 Kadir. From a pig-sticking point of view the two 

 chief Kadirs are those of the Ganges and the Jumna, 

 and it is on these two rivers that the majority of 

 the hunting, both of Tent Clubs and of individuals, 

 in all Northern India and Bengal takes place. 



A description of the Ganges Kadir will apply 

 largely to the Jumna Kadir also. The latter is 

 smaller and has more jhow and less extensive grass 

 jungles than the former. The actual going is 

 similar in both, but in our own parts I am inclined 

 to put the Jumna Kadir as having a rougher surface 

 and being more trying to a horse's feet than is the 

 Ganges Kadir. 



I feel the more at liberty to describe our hunting 

 because I think that owing to its varied and sporting 

 country, its extent, the galloping nature of many of 

 its coverts, and the high quality of the horses due 

 to the Kadir Cup, and the large garrison so close 

 at hand, I may be pardoned for calling the Meerut 

 Tent Club the Premier Hunt in India. I am, of 

 course, quite aware that one or two others surpass 

 it in either age or the number of pig they kill 

 annually. 



Our Meerut Kadir, where the bulk of our hunting 

 takes place, is about a hundred miles long. Through- 

 out this distance, and in fact from its source right 



