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become exceptionally shy and wary through much 

 persecution. 



The Burman, unhandicapped by codes of sports- 

 manship, turns his knowledge of deer life-habit to 

 account on dark, moonless nights with an adaptation 

 of the system approved by pot-hunters in many other 

 parts of the world. Equipped with an extinguisher- 

 shaped basket, mud-plastered within to prevent its 

 catching fire, which he carries on his head, mouth 

 forward to display the light flaming inside, he prowls 

 along the edge of the grazing grounds with a friend 

 who is armed with a dah ; sometimes a bullock's 

 neck-bell is used to enhance the fascinating influence 

 of the mee toung^ or fire basket, but the latter, as far 

 as my experience goes, answers all practical purposes 

 by itself. As this is a contribution to a sporting 

 work, no more need be said about the mee toung 

 business, save to add that it is worth seeing as a 

 curiosity. 



BISON 



The Karen either quests over likely ground for 

 the bison's spoor, and follows it up, or which is by 

 far the more satisfactory method tracks him from 

 his feeding -ground at dawn ; on occasion, too, he 

 sits over the mud wallow to be found in some 

 secluded nook in the hillside ; it is not advisable 

 for the man with nostrils at all sensitive to share a 

 vigil near one of these places, apart from other 

 objections. 



