EARLY DAYS IN OUDH 23 
of those days was passed, and imbued with the cult 
of sport learnt in the severe school of German hunt- 
ing etiquette, should be happy in his new surround- 
ings. The work was congenial enough, though 
consisting chiefly of the exploitation of the forest 
by selection fellings, the logs being either brought to 
depot and sawn on indent, or floated down the 
rivers, to arrive months later at Bahrémghat, then 
a railway terminus on the Gogra River. There was 
also some road- and bridge-making to be carried out, 
and the forest was being cut up into blocks by 
straight rides of from 15 to 100 feet in breadth, 
while buildings had to be constructed which necessi- 
tated the burning of bricks and lime. To one who 
had three years’ practical training amongst the 
forests of Germany, all this was easy ; and in those 
days, when the organization of the forest areas was 
still incomplete, silviculture took a minor part, for 
the area had first to be opened out, and its produce 
made accessible to a distant market. Thus the 
Forest Officer spent the whole day in the jungle 
either on the works in progress or in exploring the 
forest in order to acquire an intimate local knowledge 
of his charge; he was supplied with one elephant, 
so that it might be possible to do this satisfactorily ; 
he kept ponies for use where paths or tracks hap- 
pened to be in existence, but once off these tracks 
riding was impossible. 
My first introduction to the wild tiger was not 
long delayed. I possessed what was then termed 
an Express rifle of ‘577 bore, which fired a light 
hollow bullet with a medium charge of black powder, 
and also a 12-bore double gun, which was used with 
