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stopping in one place, perhaps half a mile in 

 extent, for hours at a time. If he travelled 

 straight away he would never get enough brows- 

 ing and grazing to fill his huge interior. With 

 the approach of daylight he makes for thicker 

 jungle, turning aside every now and then to 

 snatch a morsel of grass here and to bite off 

 a succulent shoot there, but all the time head- 

 ing for a particular spot which may be dense 

 jungle or a favourite lying-up place in indaing 

 forest. Tsaing seem to be more nocturnal than 

 bison, or, perhaps it would be more correct to 

 say that the inherent wariness of the beast 

 induces him to do the bulk of his feeding at 

 night, and to stop in any one spot for as short a 

 time as possible during the daytime, until finally 

 reaching the place where he intends to lie up 

 for the day. This, I think, accounts for the 

 fact that when fresh tracks of a tsaing are 

 struck in the early morning, it usually takes 

 some hours to come up with the animal, whereas 

 a bison under similar circumstances can often 

 be shot within an hour of taking on the trail. 

 He is less suspicious, and while slowly making 

 for the jungle he means to lie up in, he will stop 

 for half an hour at a time at various places en 

 route where the browsing particularly appeals 

 to him. 



One is apt to think — and Burmans invariably 

 do — that if it takes several hours to come up with 



