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places and the going heavy. There are many pig at this 

 time of the year which have left the sugar-cane as it is 

 cut and live in prickly pear along the river. The two meets 

 we have had here have been quite successful for this part 

 of the country. 



The Deccan pig nearly always puts up a good fight, and 

 the smaller pig often gives us a very good run owing to the 

 broken nature of the ground. 



The Bheema Cup was run for in 1881-2-3-4-5 and again 

 in 1903, but there are not enough pig here nowadays to 

 run a decent meeting. When it was first introduced it 

 used to be run for at a place called Jiti on the Bheema near 

 Diksal Station on the G.I.P. Railway, but owing to famine 

 there are very few pig there now. I have been there once 

 and we only saw two pig in a week. The Brothers Symons 

 were the chief performers in the years it was held. Major 

 England, R.F.A., won it once. 



E. V. Sarson, Hon. Sec. 

 Captain, R.F.A. 



ROORKEE TENT CLUB 



The Tent Club was formed at a meeting held on April 

 19, 1882, when Captain C. H. Bagot, R.E., became first 

 Hon. Sec, though there are sketches of hunting in 1877 

 in the records. The average bag, 1899-1911, is 25 pig and 

 1 leopard or para. The bags have fallen off in late years. 



In the 1897-98 season it was 45 pig and 4 leopard, 1 para. 

 In the 1912-13 season it was 15 pig. 



The country affords much opportunity for incident ; 

 " Fassan " is met with in most of the nullahs in the Solani- 

 Ganges, Kadir. 



The " Beehives " of Lhakasar are famous for the number 

 of sportsmen who have succumbed there. The beehives 

 consist of a piece of ground which is cut up in every direc- 

 tion by narrow crooked paths, some 2 feet deep and 1 foot 

 wide, formed apparently by cattle, leaving small hillocks 

 of an equal height and varying in size from 1 to 3 or 4 feet 



