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when you get there, it might be advisable to 

 postpone the trip till the cooler months. 



Although in Burma proper the sportsman 

 will probably be limited to one elephant — 

 should he succeed in obtaining sanction to kill 

 one at all, by no means a certainty — he will have 

 plenty of opportunities of shooting bison, tsaing, 

 and other game in the districts mentioned : 

 a further reason for choosing the months of 

 May and June for his shoot. The selection 

 of a particular district will depend on the time 

 at the sportsman's disposal. If his time is 

 practically unlimited, the Arracan Hill Tracts 

 offer a greater variety of game than most other 

 districts, and may give him a rhino. If stationed 

 in a good game district my advice is to shoot 

 in it, and to resist the temptation to go farther 

 afield. The sportsman will naturally obtain 

 more help from the local authorities in his own 

 district than in others where he is a stranger. 

 In Burma, at all events, sportsmen and officials 

 are usually very generous in putting acquaint- 

 ances, and even strangers, on to the best shooting 

 grounds in their district, and in helping them 

 to get good trackers, transport, &c. ; but they 

 consider, very naturally, that they have the 

 first claim to the shooting in their own districts, 

 and they do not view with delight the prospect 

 of being invaded by sportsmen from other 

 parts of Burma. So that, before deciding to 

 shoot in a district other than the one in which 



