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known to contain them. Given a range of hills 

 which rhinos are known to inhabit, and a general 

 idea of the direction to take when you get 

 there, the chances are that before long you will 

 come on their tracks. But do not be persuaded, 

 as I was, to visit localities said to hold rhino 

 on the off-chance of meeting them. You want 

 something better than this to go on. Above 

 all, do not, if you are wise, make a special 

 journey to some particular spot which, you are 

 assured, contains a single beast or a pair of 

 rhinos without first having made practically 

 certain that you will find them there. This you 

 can only do by getting reliable information that 

 they have been seen there comparatively recently, 

 and have not been disturbed. 



When shooting in Burma I made three 

 separate expeditions after rhino — twice into 

 independent territory and once in Burma proper. 

 But my time was limited, and being on each 

 occasion disappointed in not finding rhino where 

 I had expected to meet with them, I was obliged 

 to return without making a prolonged search. 

 The first place I tried was on the Upper Chindwin. 

 I started from Tamanthi, a small military-police 

 post, the farthest north of the posts on the 

 Chindwin. I had obtained a rough sketch map 

 of the ground to work over from a man who had 

 shot a rhino there two years previously. He 

 was not after them at the time, but came on 



