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In the Kumaon forests game was plentiful. Below 
the hills, whence numerous watercourses proceeded, 
were the forests of Horai and Jaunla Sal, and 
between these spread vast plains of high grass 
wherein sheltered in the winter both swamp-deer 
and hog-deer; but this part of the country was 
much shot over by parties from the neighbouring 
districts and from the native State of Rédnpur, 
though these did not enter the tree-forest to any 
great extent. Through the centre of the Jaunla 
Sal forest runs a broad grassy plain, ending to the 
south in a swamp, and here in the summer months 
up to four hundred swamp-deer have been counted 
as they grazed on the new grass; they are then 
bright chestnut in colour, their hides flecked with 
lighter spots, and the stags carry no heads. Jaunla 
Sal is almost the most westerly limit of this species. 
In the swamp above referred to there always were, 
and still are, tigers in the hot weather; in fact, 
Jaunla Sal is a good centre for a couple of weeks’ 
shooting, whether on foot or from an elephant. The 
wild-elephants later in the season retreat across 
the Sarda River to Nepal, and their departure is 
welcomed, for in this flat country it is difficult to 
evade them when they are disposed to be un- 
pleasant. It was in this forest that I saw the dead 
body of a tuskless male elephant, and the Forest 
Guard informed me that for three days before my 
arrival a fight had ragéd in the forest; and he 
added that, though he had been too fearful to go 
and see it, there could be no doubt that the victorious 
tusker must be of enormous size. The natives 
believe that in these duels the tuskless elephant 
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