86 A PILGRIMAGE 



the morning, he will suddenly spring from a 

 nearby treetop and go away so rapidly that you 

 have only time to glimpse his long, trailing tail. 

 He must be located with certainty, for with the 

 very first break of day he leaves his roost with a 

 rush. Many an unrewarded, long night I spent 

 before being favored. 



It was with great relief that I sighted the Karen 

 settlement and felt Phra Ram's pilgrimage to be 

 finally at an end ; yet the trip had provided me with 

 needed experience and, now qualified to distin- 

 guish the jungle man from the town loafer, I set 

 about engaging men for my buffalo hunt on the 

 Burmese border. 



