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his own knowledge of shikar to beat up the game and to kill it. 

 They have very good eyesight, and can generally spy out an 

 animal before any European. They are handy in cutting up 

 game and slinging it on to elephants, and are most useful in 

 rigging up temporary sheds, if required to do so. Tents are 

 seldom taken in Lower Burma. 



Good as are these men as pioneers, yet once on a wet, cold 

 misty day, my guides lost their way, and we did not get back 

 to camp for eighteen hours, and should not have got there then 

 had not our men, like most of the Burmese, been able to guide 

 themselves by the stars. We started at 6 a.m. and got back 

 at twelve at night, having been soaking wet from 2 p.m. 



