148 BIG-GAME SHOOTING IN UPPER BURMA 



I will eat my words served up with sambur 

 sauce ! Can I say more ? 



In Burma the best way to get sambur, when 

 it can be managed, is from an elephant. Very 

 few places admit of stalking them on foot. 

 Driving for sambur is in Burma a hopeless 

 business. He lives in such dense cover, and 

 in such long grass, that the beaters have great 

 difficulty in forcing their way through. The 

 extent of forest, too, makes it impossible to say 

 where the animals will break cover. Add to 

 this the idiosyncrasies of the Burman villager, 

 who has about as much idea of organised 

 beating as a cow, and it will be seen that the 

 game is not worth the candle. Moreover, since 

 sambur are generally found on good bison 

 ground, by beating you risk disturbing nobler 

 game. The sambur I have shot in Burma have 

 been obtained either from elephant back, or 

 when coming across them unexpectedly in the 

 early morning while after bison. 



