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sitting up at night over a " kill " for a tiger or leopard, or 

 in an elevated Burman's paddy " Hte " or hut adjoining the 

 rice-fields for elephants (luminous paint is the best thing to 

 put on to one's fore-sight even if it is only a make-shift, nothing 

 else answers thoroughly ; if you can catch a fire-fly it is the 

 best thing for a few hours, but the insect soon dies and then 

 the light goes out). Gaur, tsine, leopard, bear, sambur, etc. 

 may also be shot in the same way over a water-hole or salt- 

 lick, but this sort of sport is to be deprecated except in the 

 case of the three first-named animals. Several bottles of 

 Rangoon oil and a quantity of cotton " waste " or tow, such as 

 is used by engineers in steamers, should also be taken out for 

 gun-cleaning purposes. A good camera and a light pair of 

 Aitchison's best collapsible aluminium binoculars should also 

 form part of the equipment. A light rope-ladder, about 

 25 feet in length, with iron hooks at one end for hitching 

 on to branches of trees, would be very useful to enable the 

 shikaries to get a view of the surrounding country whenever 

 it is desirable. If this is not available, a light bamboo 

 ladder will do, or better still one of the ladders made for use 

 for getting into and off howdahs, procurable in Calcutta 

 and Bombay. 



