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and Mrs. Lloyd started in a boat over-night, and Clarke, Dr. 

 Madden, and I early next morning in my loung. We got to 

 Banlong at 7.30 p.m. The Lloyds had only just arrived. 

 We had time to bathe before dinner, and soon after, all 

 turned in. The next morning we started early, but the 

 jungles had not been sufficiently burnt, and though we put 

 up a lot of sambur and thamine we saw little more than the 

 tips of their horns. I got the only deer killed. The next 

 day I got nothing, and Lloyd killed one deer. 



March 20. Clarke, Madden, and I went ahead to Myetquin, 

 our house then being ready. I wounded a stag thamine, and 

 jumping off the elephant, ran after it with a Burman dalweil, 

 or fighting sword, and with one blow I nearly cut its neck 

 right through. As I wished to fire off my muzzle-loaders, 

 we fired at a group of deer fully 400 yards off. We saw 

 none fall, but from the thud I said I thought one had been 

 hit in the head, and we found a young buck shot right 

 through the head with my two-groove rifle which had been 

 fired by Clarke. 



March 21 and 22. During these two days we only shot 

 two deer, but the jungle fires were still raging, and the game 

 on the move. I took Mrs. Lloyd in my howdah, which I 

 had just had made. Lloyd fired at a peacock with ball and 

 missed, but Mrs. Lloyd knocked it over very prettily. She 

 is good all round. We only shot two or three deer, not 

 worth the expense of coming all this distance at this time of 

 the year. On the 25th I again took Mrs. Lloyd in my 

 howdah ; she shot a hog deer, and then, as it was getting 

 very hot, she got on to a pad elephant and went back to 

 camp. I killed three deer to-day. On the 26th and 2/th 

 we again shot with indifferent luck, bagging in the two days 

 only seven deer between us. The next day I rode back to 

 Tongho. 



In April I had to go to Shoayghein, and got to Ka-een-kine 

 at 5 p.m. The next day we went across country, making for 

 Myetquin. I started a tiger, but failed to get a shot ; the 

 heat was awful, and not a drop of water to be had anywhere. 

 We were getting to the edge of a tree-jungle, and well out 

 in the quin was a herd of tsine (wild cattle), the first I had 



