July i6, 1910.] 
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HUNTER ONE—'TRIGGER 
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THE GAME PRESERVES OF ASSAM. 
It is only within the last five years that any 
attention lias been given to the preservation o£ 
big game in Assam. There are three sanctu¬ 
aries in the Kamrup district and one each at 
Lukwah and Kasaranga in the Nowgong dis¬ 
trict. The remaining districts are left almost 
unprotected. With the exception of game in 
these sanctuaries, which are reserved for rhino¬ 
breeding, almost everything in the whole 
province is indiscriminately slaughtered. The 
game in Kamrup reserves is increasing, but it 
will take years to undo all the harm done. It 
is painful to think that the Viceroy’s inroad into 
one special rhino reserve resulted in a bag of 
only one cow rhino, where twenty years ago, 
in and around this same spot, fifty could be 
seen. 
On the south bank of the Brahmaputra there 
are still a few breeding places left, but these are 
inaccessible till about April, after the jungle has 
been burnt off. The government reserve forests 
in these parts can hardly boast of a rhino out¬ 
side the areas. Their homes and feeding 
grounds are between the lower ranges at the 
loot of the Mekir and Garo Hills, in the low- 
lying swamps and dollonies, covered with 
dense ekra and kagri, almost as thick as bam¬ 
boos, growing to a height of from 15 to 20 
feet, through which it is impossible to drive a 
Hathi at the pace a rhino travels through it. 
There are very few shikaries who will attempt 
tracking them on foot through these runs, and 
when they do it invariably ends in disaster. 
The writer has known many good old cautious 
trackers who have had to pay the “extreme 
penalty” for attempting to follow up a rhino 
in these death traps. Only four months ago 
Major Wood had the misfortune to lose an old 
shikari in one of these attempts, and nearly 
lost his life in trying to save the man. The in¬ 
cident occurred in the Bisnath district, and was 
one of the pluckiest attempts to save a man’s 
life that has been heard of for a long time. 
The Forest Officer of Kamrup and Darrang 
districts, who prepared and conducted the shoot 
for the Viceroy, is the only man known in the 
whole valley who takes a keen interest and 
strictly enforces the government rules and regu¬ 
lations on big game. The man that is doing 
all the damage and driving rhino and tiger from 
their old breeding places is the Nepali and his 
Kutia. Government allow these Kutias to be 
erected and allow these men to bring in their 
large herds of buffalo who roam about at their 
own sweet will over every well-known breeding 
spot in Assam—gazing and hacking down the 
best covers in the province. And for this gov¬ 
ernment taxes them Re. 1 per head of buffalo. 
It can be truthfully said where one is paid for 
fifty get off scot free. Every sportsman in 
Assam is aware that more harm has been done 
by these Nepali exterminators within these last 
eight years than has been done by shikar since 
tea was first started. Unless government keep 
these outlaws within certain bounds, there will 
not be a head of big game left in Assam in a 
short time. The Mungledye Sub-Division of 
Darrang, from Borpeta to Tezpur on the north 
bank, provides excellent sport for almost every 
kind of game, big and small; and no hard or 
fast rules or restrictions are made except in 
three or four small reserves where rhino are 
known to breed. These spots are the only 
places that get any special atention paid them 
to save the game on the north bank from ex¬ 
tinction. Due north from Mungledye to the 
end of North Lakhimpur, on the borders of the 
Arka, Duphla and Sarogmiri Hills, there is 
splendid Mithan shooting up the Karan, Belsiri, 
Borelli, Dekorai, Borgang, Derjoo, Ranganadi, 
Derpai and Subansiri Rivers, the latter being 
the largest feeder in the valley to the Brahma¬ 
putra. 
The finest mashecr fishing in India can 
be got up the Subansiri from the end of 
October to the end of. March. Some of the 
pools in this river, even in the dry season, are 
nearly 1,000 yards across, and the fish in these 
pools run up to 80 pounds and over. On or 
near the banks of all these streams herds of 
Mithan are to be found where salt poongs 
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Preservation of the Wild Animals of North America, 
Henry Fairfield Osborn; Distribution of the Moose, 
Madison Grant; The Creating of Game Refuges, Alden 
Sampson; Temiskaming Moose, Paul J. Dashiel; Two 
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