88 FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA 
not controlled by my wishes, but either by his own 
or by those of the driver; the latter, from a lower 
elevation, necessarily seeing things in a different 
aspect from what I did. Of course, when many 
sportsmen are occupied in shooting one tiger, it is 
immaterial how they ride their elephants, as but 
one can be attacked at a time, and the relieving 
forces are near at hand. 
West of Dhikdla is situated Boxar, where there is 
a house built on the ruins of a sawmill, which I 
believe was erected just before the Mutiny, and was 
never worked. A canal had been dug across a bend 
in the Ramganga River, and power was to be 
vbtained from a turbine. It may some day be 
found profitable to attempt again to utilize the 
water-power of this river—not, indeed, solely for 
sawing timber, but to produce hydro-electric power 
for industries to the south. Meanwhile there was 
at Boxar good fishing, and in Shishamkhata, a 
forest above the house, there are always tigers and 
deer, which afford good sport until the arrival of 
some shooting-party, when they are driven up to the 
fire-trace to the north of the forest, to guns posted 
at intervals along it. About twenty or thirty 
elephants are required to carry out this scheme 
successfully. 
South of Boxar the road runs to Kalagarh, where 
the Ramganga debouches on the plains, but a more 
interesting route may be taken through the low 
hills some thirty miles to Ramnagar ; at each camp 
tracks of tigers are certain to be seen, and at 
Jamnagwar there is a famous ravine where they 
congregate later on in the season, when water is 
