PREFACE 



IN 1879 Messrs. Chapman and Hall published a book of 

 mine, Sport in British Burma, but I was not in the country 

 at the time, and did not see the proofs or the illustrations 

 and many, though immaterial, errors crept in. Since then, 

 Upper Burma has been annexed, so that from the base of the 

 Himalaya range to Malaya the whole country, including 

 Assam, is now uninterruptedly British. When the proposed 

 extension of our railway system into Yanan is carried out, 

 there will be a great influx of Europeans into Burma, and 

 during the intervals of business most Britons delight in 

 following the/m? naturcz ; but without a reliable guide, sport 

 is very difficult to be got there, for the conditions between 

 India and that country are very great, and however au fait a 

 man may have been on the west of the Bay of Bengal, he will 

 be quite at sea on the east. 



No book giving a description of the wild sports of Upper 

 Burma has been written. In fact, it has often been asserted 

 that there was no sport to be had in the whole of Burma, 

 Upper or Lower, but I trust these pages copied from diaries 

 will prove the contrary. 



Beyond a casual visit to Amrapoora in 1856 and Mandalay 

 in 1858, I know nothing of Upper Burma or its capabilities 

 for sport, but my colleague, W. S. Thorn, has resided over six 

 years in that part of the country, and he has been the pioneer 

 in exploiting its big game, as I may say I was of that in Lower 

 Burma. We have therefore jointly written this Guide to the 

 Wild Sports of those countries. I had thirteen years' experi- 



