40 MODERN PIG-STICKING 



Fyzabad is an example of artificial sanctuaries. 

 It has, or can have, large grants of land made by 

 Government many years ago, in which to preserve 

 pig on terms favourable to both cultivator and 

 hunter. 



Muttra and Delhi are both fed from native states 

 — Bhurtpur and Alwar. Kheri, I will not give you 

 more examples, used to be fed in the same way with 

 tiger from Nepaul. Owing to years of drought and 

 numerous fires, a large belt of open country has 

 intervened, and few tiger now come there. 



Drought, over - preservation, or any unusual 

 occurrence may cause a migration of pig. As a rule, 

 one is powerless to do anything beyond accepting 

 the conditions nature imposes. In Budaon some 

 years ago the jungles on the banks of the canals 

 were cut down. For two years there was magnifi- 

 cent pig-sticking ; after that such pig as were left 

 migrated elsewhere. 



The increase of pig at Delhi is an interesting 

 subject, and will repay a moment's consideration 

 before I close this chapter. I trust that you will 

 understand that my remarks are made in no jealous 

 spirit. I look on Delhi as the hog-hunters Mecca, 

 and I hope to be quartered there some day. I envy 

 and admire the results produced. 



If you refer to the chapter on Tent Clubs you 

 will see that in Delhi for years the bag has been a 

 small and fluctuating one. In 1907, on the arrival 

 of a Native Cavalry regiment, the 18th Lancers, 

 preservation was started in earnest. Results were 

 not apparent immediately. For the three years, 

 1907, 1908, 1909, the average bag was under 60 

 pig a year. Then came a great increase. In 1910 

 the bag was 257, and in 1912 it reached 385 boar. 



