Pakistan Forest Institute
Peshawar, Pakistan

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PJF VOL 2 - Issue 2 - Year 1952; PP 126 - 126 Search
Title Off the Beaten Track (A Tale from Jungles)
Author(s) S. A. Vahid
Designation Inspector- General of Forests, Government of Pakistan
Abstract/Summary
Introduction/General
I reached my camp at Kareli late in the evening and after a hurried bath and dinner I sent for the Forest Guard, and he produced the local Shikari Soma. Soma came we started at once on our way to see the “Kills”. After walking about a mile we got into a large nalah with steep rocky banks. In the sand of the bed could be seen innumerable pug marks of all sorts of animals-buffaloes, bison, sambhar, chital. In the pale-suffused light of the rising sun the tall stately trees, with luxuriant foliage, the dark grass over ten feet high in places, and the steep rocky banks made this quiet solitude look particularly ‘tigerish’. I expected to meet a tiger every minute. Old Soma could not conceal his amusement at the excitement I showed. Before approaching a bend Some signaled to me to be extra quiet. As we took the turn a gorgeous peacock scuttled off uttering the trumpet note of alarm.