246 WILD SPORTS OF BURMA AND ASSAM 



and eating at the same time comparatively good and nutritious 

 food. We will now suppose that the visitor or intending 

 sportsman has had enough of Mandalay, and desires an 

 introduction to the glorious shooting grounds of Upper Burma, 

 where even at the present day the lordly elephant and gaur 

 roam about unmolested, over vast tracts of hill and dale 

 which have as yet, comparatively speaking, been untrodden 

 by either the foot of the globe-trotter, or the relentless searcher 

 of trophies and record heads. 



