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in protection, and also cause much irritation to the 
people, and in retaining the larger that are situated 
on the summit of ridges; for these will have good 
effect in improving the water-supply in this arid 
country, and are as a rule less accessible from the 
villages below. 
The Kanara forests contain bison and tiger and 
other big game. The former are driven to sports- 
men perched on the top of high ladders, though it 
is somewhat astonishing that it should be possible 
to fire a heavy rifle while still retaining a seat on 
a slippery plank. The heavy grass of the Tarai 
forests of Northern India, in which tiger and ele- 
phant are swallowed up, is not frequent here, so that 
driving game with coolies and tracking it on foot are 
feasible. But there was no time for sport during my 
short visit ; I accompanied my kindly hosts, Messrs. 
Talbot, Murray and Millett, to Bombay, whence, 
after meeting in conference, I returned to Calcutta 
to prepare my report for the Bombay Government. 
My two last tours in Madras and Bombay had 
given opportunity to compare forest conditions there 
with those in the Provinces under the more direct 
control of the Government of India, and the result 
of such comparisons seemed to afford proof that the 
system of government did not affect the progress of 
State forestry, but solely the attitude of the Govern- 
ment towards it. In all Provinces the rules for the 
subservience of the Forest to the Revenue Depart- 
ment were theoretically identical, but their applica- 
tion was widely different; and in those Provinces 
where there was deemed to be no practical necessity 
to enforce these rules literally—that is, where the- 
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