But Cassidy did pay, and then the boys let him foreclose on the ruined grove. They had better fish to fry.
[A TIGERS' HAUNT.]
Lonely—difficult to traverse—haunted by wild beasts. Such is the picture of the great delta of the Ganges, as drawn by Mr. Edmund Candler in Blackwood's Magazine. The region of the Sundarbans occupies four thousand square miles, and is intersected by six hundred named and ten times as many unnamed channels. What is not water is thick jungle. The banks of the channels are haunted by crocodiles and red and brown crabs.
"Seeds fall all day long, and germinate at once in the mud, and spring up and choke one another, and writhe and struggle for light and room." But this seething mass of vegetation is all mapped out into sections by the Forest Department. Each section, when the timber is cut, is left alone for forty years. This statement of itself makes us realize the loneliness of the place.
Wild animals have their lairs in this forest, and the tiger is a serious danger to the woodcutters of the forest, many of whom fall to the tigers yearly.