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the less liquor consumed in the jungle the better. 

 A bottle of whisky a week should be enough 

 for any man who wishes to keep hard and 

 fit. Soda-water is an unnecessary luxury, but 

 sparklets make a good substitute. A Berkfield 

 travelling filter is very desirable; and all water, 

 except from clear running streams, should be 

 boiled before use. A few bottles of lime juice 

 are useful. Rice can be obtained from any 

 village. Candles in camp candlesticks, with a 

 couple of spare globes, are better than oil in the 

 jungle. Kerosene oil has an unpleasant habit 

 of unaccountably getting mixed with one's food. 

 Tents are a necessity on bison ground, and are 

 useful anywhere. There is a zayat, or rest- 

 house, in nearly every village ; but these are 

 generally dirty, and are frequently the regular 

 rendezvous of all the pariah dogs in the village. 

 Moreover, they are usually built on a public 

 path leading from the village to the 'Hpoongyi- 

 Kyoung, ' or monastery. So that, between villagers 

 passing all day long, pariah dogs on the prowl 

 day and night, the discordant clanging of gongs in 

 the monastery, and the scholars' voices intoning 

 their lessons, there is little privacy for the 

 European occupant. Burmese life can certainly 

 be studied to advantage from the zayat, and to 

 the man new to Burma this may be held to 

 compensate for the publicity of his surroundings. 

 If only shooting for a few days it is not worth 



