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food for the camp, a lot of grog and a little tobacco now 



and then, a Burman will do anything for you. Lloyd 



too, besides being the Deputy Commissioner of the 



district, talked the language well, but in that respect 



his wife was far his superior, for in a year or two she 



picked up the language so thoroughly, that the Burmese 



themselves wondered how she had acquired such a 



perfect knowledge of it. Moreover neither of us were 



stingy, and paid the men well, and they found that in 



one trip, what with the money they got as pay, the 



government rewards, and by the sale of dried meat, 



they made more than they would do in a couple of 



years by the beasts they had been in the habit of 



killing by torchlight. I had hunted with these men 



in 1856-58 and again in 1859 and 1860, and for three 



years afterwards, and had no difficulty in getting 



them to take us to the best places. But to return 



to our trip. 



May 6th. The shikaries took us away from the 

 Grna-Eein into grass too high to see anything in, 

 and though w r e heard dozens of animals bolting, we 

 saw nothing for the best part of the day, so lost our 

 time and I fear our tempers. But towards the after- 

 noon we got into better ground. Here the country is 

 covered with trees pretty far apart. One is the 

 pemah, which has a lilac flower ; the other is very 

 like the laburnum, 1 but if possible finer. Between 

 these trees there is what the Burmese term kine 

 grass, growing from three to six feet high. Here 

 we formed line and soon put up sambur after sambur. 

 We were both reluctant to shoot hinds, but if we did 

 not provide the shikaries with plenty of meat, which 



1 Cassia Fistula. 



