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become known as "Pompadour Jim." My white 

 monkey had a perfect pompadour on his head. Soon 

 one of the newspapers printed a story connecting 

 Corbett and the monkey. A few days later I sold 

 the monkey for $1,500, and I then had enough 

 money to start for Singapore. 



It was in April, 1887, that I left New York on 

 the steamer Glenderrie. I outfitted in London while 

 we lay over there, taking cargo aboard, and, be- 

 cause I was none too sure what material I should 

 need, I confined my outfit to clothes and guns. On 

 the advice of several animal-men, I bought a Win- 

 chester 50-110 express rifle that fired explosive 

 bullets. The bullets contained a detonator and 

 enough dynamite to stop any animal in his tracks. 

 My revolvers were a Colt .45 and a Smith and Wes- 

 son .38. The passage took seven weeks and during 

 that time I became well acquainted with Captain 

 Angus, who commanded the boat. 



When I reached Singapore, I began at once to 

 learn the Malay language, which is spoken with 

 some variations of dialect throughout the Archi- 

 pelago. 



I called on Mahommed AriiT every day and 

 learned as much as possible about the ways and 

 means by which he carried on his business. Even- 

 tually I proposed to him that he let me act as his 

 agent in interviewing the captains of some of the 

 boats that called at the port. He agreed to my 

 plan because there were many captains who would 



