1 50 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



applied several times for temporary leave, as I was 

 anxious to try some jungles where B. some years before 

 had been very successful. It was no use going south 

 I could no longer get the use of the elephants and 

 since the construction of the railway, big game had 

 gone further inland ; moreover the old shikaries were 

 dead. But near Lepangyoung, after the forest fires and 

 before the monsoon sets in, game can occasionally be 

 seen and got at. A local shikarie of that district, 

 Shoay-Boh, whom I knew and met casually in the 

 market, told me that, owing to the disarmament of 

 the people since the disturbances, no one but himself 

 possessed a gun within twenty miles round Lepang- 

 young, and that game was just then very plentiful, 

 and the jungles in a nice state for stalking or beating. 

 It was early in May. and as the man was returning 

 home next day, I hurried off on the impulse of the 

 moment to my commanding officer, who was also the 

 commandant of the station, to solicit three days' leave 

 from the following Monday. That was on Friday ; I 

 was not on duty on Saturday ; I had not to attend 

 church parade on Sunday ; so I calculated that if I 

 was successful in my application I could " sniggle " 

 those two days as well. After humming and hawing 

 a bit, the leave was granted. I hurried off to a 

 Madras contractor, who had some carts, and now and 

 then let them out on hire, but he charged Es.2 

 a day besides the keep of the cattle, and in case of 

 an accident to either cart or bullock I was to make 

 good the loss. It did not take me long to get my 

 goods and chattels into the cart, and to dispatch it with 

 the servants and orderly to Tseben. with orders to go 

 on at daybreak to Lepangyoung and to put up in 



