CHAPTER XVI 



BIG GAME SHOOTING IN BURMAH 

 By E. D. CUMING 



IF a few notes on my cold weather jungle trips in 

 Lower Burmah can be of any use the public is very 

 welcome to them, but I stipulate for leave to warn 

 my readers that they are not hearing the voice of 

 authority. When a man has been shooting big game 

 for years in all quarters of the globe, and can furnish 

 the walls of his house from hall to roof with his own 

 trophies, he has something to say worth the telling. 

 All I can do is to try to show what any man with a 

 short purse who goes out alone with Burmese and 

 Karen shikaries may expect if he be prepared to 

 rough it and work hard ; and he must do both if he 



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