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The question naturally arises as to how this was 

 done. Preservation of pig must have been exceed- 

 ingly good. The Delhi country is a compact area, 

 a ring fence, which offers facilities for this. The 

 Tent Club were lucky in having an Honorary 

 Secretary, Mr. Brayne, I.C.S., as efficient as he is 

 keen. 



The bag of the neighbouring Tent Clubs has not 

 increased in nearly the same proportion. Muttra 

 went up to large numbers with the 15th Hussars, 

 and has since remained fairly stationary at a high 

 level, reaching 400 in 1911, when the Royals handed 

 over the country. Meerut has increased from an 

 average bag of 30 pig a year in 1886 to one of about 

 160. Yet Muttra has been very efficiently hunted, 

 and in Meerut poachers are, to a large extent, known, 

 labelled, and watched. The Meerut country is so 

 extensive that poaching undoubtedly takes place 

 sometimes in the outlying portions of the hunt. 



Considering all this, therefore, it is doubtful if the 

 difference in the preservative measures of the various 

 hunts is sufficient to account for the difference in 

 the bag. In the case of Meerut and Delhi, of course, 

 the one is an old hunt working almost to the limit 

 of its capacity, while the other is, so to speak, virgin 

 soil. The pig were there, but the jungle was 

 impracticable, the situation had not been developed. 

 I have hunted over the bulk of the Delhi country 

 some years ago : it was then mostly unrideable. 

 In places where we gave up in despair large bags 

 are now made. The jungle, jhow largely, has either 

 undergone its periodical cutting, or was specially 

 felled for Durbar requirements in 1911. This latter 

 seems likely. 



It is probable that the Alwar pig migrate to 



