100 BIG-GAME SHOOTING IN UPPER BURMA 



risk of the sportsman being discovered by some 

 keen-eyed cow before he can view the herd. 

 It pays, therefore, to follow solitary bulls in 

 preference to herds when circumstances are 

 favourable. 



A solitary bull when feeding, though far more 

 wary than a bison, is occasionally fairly easily 

 circumvented. But whoever takes on the tracks 

 of tsaing, whether those of a solitary bull or 

 herd, must be prepared for a long tramp, with 

 possible disappointment at the end of it. In no 

 branch of big-game shooting is it more neces- 

 sary to have good trackers. Tsaing, as I have 

 said, are fast movers, much faster walkers than 

 bison. They will usually be moving consider- 

 ably faster than one can track. One comes up 

 with them only because they stop from time to 

 time for a few minutes to feed in certain places 

 where the grass and herbage particularly appeals 

 to them, and also because, before lying up for 

 the day, they wander slowly about on the spot 

 they have selected before finally settling them- 

 selves. Constant checks and ' scratching about ' 

 are annoying when following any animal ; but 

 with tsaing they are positively fatal. Another 

 thing about tsaing is, that frequently they give 

 no indication that they are close by. This is 

 the case more particularly when following soli- 

 tary bulls. The droppings are less frequent 

 than with bison ; probably because tsaing move 



