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to obtain them is to drive for them with beaters. In Lower 

 Burmah they are occasionally shot by lamplight, much in the 

 same manner as that described in Colonel Rice's book ; the 

 performance is said to be very interesting. The party (which 

 usually consists of a lamp-bearer, a man with an arrangement 

 of jingling bells and rings on a stick, the sportsman and his gun- 

 carriers) having assembled after dark, a fire is lit, and a kind of 



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incantation gone through, everyone but the speaker being for- 

 bidden to utter a word. When the incantation is over, each 

 member of the party passes through the smoke of the fire in turn, 

 the guns are handed through it also, the lamp is then lit, and 

 the party starts, using the lamp, an earthenware pot with a hole 

 in its side, as a search light, while the man with the frame of 

 bells keeps up an incessant jingling On a deer being dis- 

 covered, the light is at once turned full on its eyes and kept 



