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a few green doves of the variety so common and 

 plentiful in Siam. There were many birds, in- 

 deed, of varying though not brilliant plumage ; and 

 monkeys of all sizes, and of all hues of countenance. 

 Of the barking deer there were also many, and now 

 and then I saw the tiny mouse deer, with its ex- 

 quisitely dainty lines, the entire animal less than 

 eighteen inches in height. Of wild pig tracks 

 there were many. It was a great relief from 

 tramping through the mud and wet clinging un- 

 dergrowth of the dismal jungle. 



Jungle hunting is so different from that of the 

 uplands or of the mountains ; it is so monotonous, 

 so uneventful. Only at the finish, when you are 

 immediately before your game, and not always 

 then, is there any stalking. There is no woodcraft. 

 You simply wallow in mud, cutting a way through 

 dense undergrowth impenetrable to the eye, some- 

 times crawling through mud holes up to your knees. 

 Never is there opportunity of a view ahead, as to 

 the lie of the land or the probable course of the 

 game. You may only plod on, following the 

 tracks, hopeful that the next mud hole may show 

 fresh spoor. And the gloom of the interior prim- 

 eval soundless jungle is most depressing. 



Moving our main camp farther into the interior 

 several times, thus to give us wider range from our 

 base of supplies, we had covered quite an area and 



