Excerpt from Wild Sports of Burma and Assam
In 1879 Messrs. Chapman and Hall published a book of mine, Sport in British Burma, but I was not in the country at the time, and did not see the proofs or the illustrations - and many, though immaterial, errors crept in. Since then, Upper Burma has been annexed, so that from the base of the Himalaya range to Malaya the whole country, including Assam, is now uninterruptedly British. When the proposed extension of our railway system into Yanan is carried out, there will be a great influx of Europeans into Burma, and during the intervals of business most Britons delight in following the? natur?; but without a reliable guide, sport is very difficult to be got there, for the conditions between India and that country are very great, and however au fait a man may have been on the west of the Bay of Bengal, he will be quite at sea on the east.
No book giving a description of the wild sports of Upper Burma has been written. In fact, it has often been asserted that there was no sport to be had in the whole of Burma, Upper or Lower, but I trust these pages - copied from diaries - will prove the contrary.
Beyond a casual visit to Amrapoora in 1856 and Mandalay in 1858, I know nothing of Upper Burma or its capabilities for sport, but my colleague, W. S. Thorn, has resided over six years in that part of the country, and he has been the pioneer in exploiting its big game, as I may say I was of that in Lower Burma. We have therefore jointly written this Guide to the Wild Sports of those countries.
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