Jungle By -Ways in India 



Hills. Running generally north and south and 

 cutting wide white scars through hill and plain 

 forest are the watercourses or raos as they are 

 termed locally, which, from narrow ravines and 

 deep gorges in the mountains, broaden out into wide 

 stony river-beds as soon as the slope becomes more 

 level on leaving the hills. Save in the rains these 



A Howdah Elephant. 



are mostly dry, or have a small stream flowing down 

 one part of the wide bed. The rest is given over to 

 tall elephant grass patches and the aforesaid copses 

 — both affording a grand shelter to game of all sorts. 

 Thus in this ideal sportsmen's paradise you may 

 beat on elephants or afoot through high forest or 

 tall elephant grass, or through dense brakes and 

 thickets of thorny trees and shrubs ; or again — best 



