2 WILD LIFE IN NORTH CANARA. 



but in a position to see much of the 

 unsophisticated races who lived and 

 laboured in and around the great teak 

 forests of North Oanara, and of the wild 

 animals which abound there. 



In 1845 North and South Canara 

 formed one great province, with a coast 

 line of about two hundred and fifty 

 mileSj ending at the Portuguese frontier. 

 On its eastern side the little kingdom 

 of Coorg, the Mysore dominions, and 

 the districts of Darwar and Belgaum 

 covered a frontier of three hundred 

 miles, at an average distance of fifty 

 miles from the western coast; and of 

 the entire area thus enclosed, by far the 

 greater portion was hill and forest. 



Before leaving Mangalore for my 

 charge in the north, I heard from the 



