PREFACE 



Some apology is, perhaps, needed for this book. 

 An excellent book on big -game shooting in 

 Burma, entitled ' Wild Sports in Burma and 

 Assam,' by joint authors Colonel Pollock and 

 Mr. Thorn of the Burma Police, has already 

 been written, and, therefore, an additional book 

 may seem superfluous. But Colonel Pollock 

 wrote of shooting in Lower Burma many years 

 ago, and, from the nature of the country, was 

 obliged to do practically all his shooting from 

 the back of an elephant. The present book, 

 like Mr. Thorn's portion of the work referred to, 

 treats of shooting in Upper Burma only, and 

 on foot. Although Mr. Thorn's experiences and 

 mine coincide in the main, there is a difference, 

 due in part to the localities in which we have 

 hunted. Mr. Thom did most of his shooting in 

 one district, the Ruby Mines. I have never been 

 to the Ruby Mines, but have shot in the districts 

 of the Upper and Lower Chindwin, Shwebo, 

 Sagaing, Meiktila, Magwe, and Yamethin ; that 



