Bengal Tiger in the Duaars

THIS HUNT TOOK place in a very interestin ea known as the Duaars, situated between the independent former Royal State of Cooch Behar to the South, and Bhutan, an independent Hill State lying between Tibet and the Northern oundary of Bengal.

The Duaars was an impenetrable jungle inhabited by every conceivable type of Indian wildlife, including the famous royal Bengal tiger, leopards and various species of deer, while also infested with malarial mosquitoes and other fierce flies and insects deterring the intrusion of mankind. It was occupied by the Mechas, an almost extinct race. Duaars is now a cultivated tea-planting area, having been developed with great hardship mainly by Scottish tea planters. The Duaars is the original