54 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 



gain immediately and made arrangements to re- 

 cage the tigers and haul them by ox-teams to Cal- 

 cutta. 



At Perth the directors of the New Gardens were 

 so pleased with the tigers that they sent me a good 

 bonus for my trouble in securing them. And my 

 story about the thieves of Hazaribagh was the joke 

 of the year. 



There came a dearth of good animals at Singa- 

 pore, and so I determined to go into the state of 

 Trengganu to see what luck I should have at col- 

 lecting. Trengganu was at that time an indepen- 

 dent state and had never been thoroughly explored. 

 The Sultan who ruled over it was unwilling to have 

 white men in the country because he feared that 

 his state might become a protectorate of one of the 

 larger powers. He was wise enough to realize that 

 if a white man entered and committed some such 

 indiscretion as interfering with one of the native 

 women, the white man would be found with a kris 

 stuck into him. And the result would probably be 

 that the white man's government would send sol- 

 diers to depose the Sultan and take over the govern- 

 ment. He wanted nothing more than to be left 

 alone with his country, and so he made it a law that 

 foreigners were not allowed. 



At Singapore one heard many tales of the wealth 

 of animals in Trengganu, but it was generally con- 

 ceded that it was impossible for a white man to 



