CHAPTER XVII 



DETAILS OF TENT CLUBS 



I WROTE to the Hon. Sec. of every Tent Club in 

 India asking for details as to his Hunt regarding — 



(a) Average bag yearly. 



{b) Biggest bag on record. 



(c) Biggest pig killed. 



(d) Date of founding of Club. 

 {e) Nature of country hunted. 

 (/) Any other item of interest. 



I give their replies in full and thank them for 

 their courtesy. 



AGRA TENT CLUB 



Records previous to 1900 have unfortunately been lost. 

 An old former member, however, states that it was not 

 unusual for as many as 200 pig to be killed in a season. If 

 this is so, it is evident that much of the country must have 

 been brought under cultivation since that time. The 

 average bag since 1900 has been 60 ; 1911 was the best year, 

 when 129 ^ were killed in 55 days' hunting between February 

 1 and August 20. (The rains were very late that year and 

 did not break until that date.) The average number of 

 spears was slightly over four. The membership of the Club 

 fluctuates enormously from year to year, rendering its 

 existence rather precarious. The main jungles hunted by 

 the Club are on both banks of the Jumna below Agra, and 



^ Of these, 86 fell to the spears of two intrepid gunners of the 14th 

 Battery, R.F.A. 



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