30 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



Burma, the long kine grass, the surface of the ground 

 being covered with a substitute which never exceeds 

 three feet in height. In this cover we saw several ghee 

 (barking deer), a few pheasants, and jungle fowl. By the 

 time we got in sight of a cluster of Karen huts, Mong- 

 Oo was well laden, as he had a buck over his should- 

 ers, and some six or seven birds attached to his belt. 

 These Karens for such was the race of my neighbours 

 are scattered about in the remoter parts of Burma ; 

 they and the Burmese do not agree, and their habits 

 are totally dissimilar. Whilst the former wander 

 about forming townyahs, or clearances reclaimed 

 from the primaeval forests, and abandoned after 

 two years' cultivation, the latter congregate together, 

 and grow different cereals, principally rice. The 

 Karens are a sturdy race, bigger and stronger than 

 the Burmese. This distinction is more marked even 

 among the women, who when obtained young, and 

 taught cleanliness, make capital ayahs. We were 

 sufficiently near to distinguish groups of women 

 hoeing a field, and others pounding paddy, when 

 there was a skedaddle, the women made for the 

 huts screaming, whilst the men rushed out of their 

 houses and gardens, with such arms as they could 

 lay hands upon. "What is up?" said I. "Surely 

 they can't be frightened of us." " I think some one 

 has been killed, and probably by a tiger," said the 

 Shikarie. We hurried on and when near enough heard 

 the death wail, and on reaching the village were told 

 that a girl had been carried off by a tiger. The 

 people were fearfully excited ; they had lived there 

 over a year, and had not before been molested. 

 The parents of the girl and her affianced husband 



