1 5 2 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



me he had sent on fifteen beaters, all he could get, to 

 some low-lying hills, cut up with innumerable water- 

 courses (just then quite dry), where there were sam- 

 bur, ghee (barking deer), and perhaps a panther or 

 maybe a tiger. Meat was scarce. Shoay-Boh had 

 been absent some days and had been unable to pro- 

 cure venison for sale, so the people had been living 

 on rotten fish and would welcome flesh of any sort. 

 A Burman will eat anything from an elephant to a 

 snail. So it was all fish, like Paddy Myles that, 

 came into his net, so he had on my behalf promised 

 the beaters and villagers that any game I shot would 

 be given to them, if they conducted matters properly, 

 and that in addition I would give each man eight 

 annas, with which he could purchase gnapee, which he, 

 Shoay-Boh, had brought out ! My orderly had gone 

 on with the beaters, taking with him a pet, double- 

 rifle and a 12 smooth-bore. By 10 A.M. I was en route 

 again, and got to the rendezvous by 11 A.M. After 

 reconnoitring the country, and confabs between the 

 shikarie, myself and beaters, it was decided to beat a 

 long ridge, with a nullah running almost parallel 

 along its base. The men took a detour so as to get 

 well to the windward, and were to beat towards me. 

 The grass was only about three feet high, and of a 

 kind which deer dearly love. I took up my position 

 on the bank of the nullah, which was pretty free of 

 jungle, with the exception of one bush, under which 

 I ensconced myself. The bottom of the watercourse 

 was about seven feet below me ; the bank on my 

 side almost perpendicular. I could see fifty yards up 

 it and about thirty yards below. There were only 

 a few bushes and boulders scattered about, which 



