A BULL MERELY STUNNED 397 



look for it, that it was non inventus. I concluded therefrom 

 that my bullet had either grazed the spine or glanced off its 

 head, stunning it temporarily. This often happens, and, as I 

 have remarked before, an animal which drops to your shot 

 like a stone invariably gets up again little or none the worse, 

 and makes off. No animal mortally wounded by a body-shot 

 drops thus, and remains perfectly motionless, unless the spine 

 has been penetrated. Sometimes, even in the latter case, 

 animals stagger away before dropping. 



Tsine are, as a rule, found near streams whose banks are 

 thickly wooded with bamboo and undergrowth, but they are 

 also sometimes found feeding or lying up a long distance from 

 water. They are particularly fond of sleeping or resting in 

 low bamboo-wooded undulating forest. 



The best way to find fresh tracks is to walk along down the 

 bed of some stream, where there is only an occasional pool of 

 water and where tsine are accustomed to drink, and the chances 

 are that before the sportsman has gone very far he will come 

 upon the tracks of both solitary and herd animals crossing and 

 re-crossing the stream. They are often found feeding on the 

 succulent shoots of doop grass, which grows along the banks 

 and in the beds of streams. 



During the dry weather some of the streams dwindle to a 

 tiny rivulet, an inch or two deep and a few feet broad, mean- 

 dering along the course, sometimes disappearing altogether to 

 reappear lower down, and forming at times large pools, which 

 are frequently visited by animals during the hottest time of 

 the day. 



I remember on one occasion out shooting in the jungles, 

 accompanied by three of my hunters, near the village of 

 " Kyauk oh," which in Burmese signifies " stone pot," coming 

 suddenly upon three bull tsine, or rather, to put the case 

 more honestly, they intruded upon us. Moung Hpe, Moung 

 Youk, and another old friend, whose name I have forgotten, 

 and I had seated ourselves on the ground in a shady spot 

 beside a pool, where we intended having some refreshment. 



We had been out all day in the broiling sun since 5 a.m. 

 without getting a shot, and as it was then about mid-day, we 

 called a halt at the pool to cool ourselves and have drink. 



