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from the knee to only six inches above. The de- 

 sign may be a turtle, or the much dreaded tiger 

 done elaborately, but the one most frequently 

 seen, and the simplest, is a sort of a lace or 

 fringe pattern in the middle of the thigh, or just 

 below the knee, like a garter. The women do 

 not tattoo, believing in beauty unadorned ; heaven 

 knows they need adornment as my photograph of 

 an average looking jungle lady will bear me 

 witness. 



Before we had travelled many days together my 

 doubts concerning the efficiency of the men of our 

 expedition as hunters, became convictions. When 

 we had passed through the comparatively open, 

 park-like country and got well into the jungle, the 

 attractive, natural settings and the pleasing bird 

 notes were replaced by dense timber and bush 

 growths, which shut out the sun, and an appalling 

 silence that was broken only by the sounds we our- 

 selves made in pushing through the forest which 

 so hedged us in that a clear view of fifty yards was 

 unusual. For a few days after reaching the jungle 

 proper we occasionally heard the choking, startling 

 cry of a big, blackish, gray ape— but even that 

 lone disturber of the solitude soon ceased his un- 

 even efforts. We were now in what Phra Ram 

 was pleased to term the hunting country, and I 

 have forgotten just how many he declared my bag 



