102 BIG-GAME SHOOTING IN UPPER BURMA 



tsaing one can often detect when close to them 

 a strong bovine scent, like that emanating from 

 a cattle-pen. But I have never been able to 

 get this scent while following a single beast. 



In the hot weather it is often a good plan 

 to sleep on the tracks. You have followed a 

 beast till dusk, let us say, and he is still some 

 miles ahead of you. Instead of wearily tramp- 

 ing back a dozen miles or more to camp, you 

 prepare for a night out. It is pleasant enough 

 in the hot weather under a fine starlit sky, 

 especially if you have brought a clean flannel 

 shirt with you, and have some cold food left 

 over from the morning. But don't be persuaded 

 to trying this game in the rains, unless you wish 

 to have a certain 'go' of malaria which may keep 

 you in bed for weeks. As soon as it is light 

 enough to see, you take on the tracks next 

 morning, and if you don't come up with the 

 beast by eight or nine o'clock you will be very 

 unlucky indeed. What matters it that you have 

 a fifteen-mile trudge back into camp if you have 

 got the tail of a fine old bull tsaing to show 

 for it ? 



I have already aired my theory about solitary 

 bulls in the chapter on bison, and I do not find 

 it differs in respect to tsaing. Unfortunately, 

 when tracking up a solitary tsaing, it is some- 

 times impossible to tell what sort of head he 

 has ; still, as a rule, if the tracks are not those 



