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covered the body over. If the vultures cannot see the carcase 

 it is quite safe from them ; there are no hyaenas and scarcely 

 any jackals in Lower Burma, so hoping to find my prize 

 intact next morning we hurried back as fast as we could. 

 We got to the path leading to Lepangoung just at dark, and 

 we reached the Zyat a little before 8 p.m., and I was 

 delighted to find not only the bodies of three sambur but also 

 that of a very fine tiger. Shoay Boh informed me that he 

 found the feline dead evidently the one I had fired at first ; 

 the second must have been his mate. I had the tiger carefully 

 flayed and pegged out, every particle of fat cut away, and 

 warm ashes from bamboos well rubbed in. It was then close 

 on 1 1 p.m. time to go to bed. 



I was up at daylight, and with eight men armed with a long 

 pole I went off to fetch the body of the tigress. Although it 

 was Sunday I took my smooth-bore with me, and I shot 

 several jungle fowl and one yit before we reached the tigress; 

 found her intact, and returned in triumph. I spent the 

 rest of that day in pegging out the skin and in preparing the 

 heads. I have found that by boiling them for six or eight 

 hours, all the flesh peels off, and the skull is left nice and 

 clean and perfectly white. The teeth sometimes get loose, 

 but can be put back and kept in their places by means of 

 beeswax as a temporary measure, and permanently fixed by 

 plaster of Paris. That is also the best way to prepare even 

 deer skulls, taking care not to submerge any portion of the 

 horn. 



I had a long talk with Shoay Boh, and it was decided that 

 we were to start for some salt-licks some two hours before 

 daylight, so as to get there by dawn. He said there were 

 pyoung (gaur) there ; so about 3 a.m. we got under weigh, and 

 walked steadily for three hours through principally forests of 

 teak, sal, and other trees and bamboos, without encountering 

 much undergrowth. 



We quickly got on to a fresh track leading towards one of 

 the licks, but as we had to go down wind by following the 

 trail it would be labour lost, so we made a long detour, and 

 it was fully 7 a.m. before we ventured to make for the 

 depression where the whitish earth impregnated with sodium 



