70 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 



mers wanted to buy, and I had the exclusive privi- 

 lege so far as foreigners were concerned of 

 hunting there. And, since the Sultan received a 

 bonus on the animals captured, he provided me with 

 labor. 



The Sultan remained several days and we spent 

 much of our time in talking over the problems of 

 government. These conversations ended by my be- 

 coming a sort of foreign adviser in all dealings with 

 European countries. Later, before Trengganu was 

 made a British protectorate, he awarded me some 

 valuable tin concessions. The new arrangement 

 under the British government was made satisfac- 

 torily ; he received a suitable pension and he passed 

 happily into a purely honorary position in his state, 

 relieved of all the complexities of political admin- 

 istration. When I last saw him, he was living in 

 indolent comfort, surrounded by his wives and his 

 two-story brick palace was at last completed. 



It took more than a week after the departure of 

 the Sultan of Trengganu for the natives to get 

 their fill of celebration. While they feasted and 

 danced, I made my plans for the stocks in which the 

 sixty elephants were to be broken. 



The breaking of elephants, especially so large a 

 herd, is a long, tedious job. I was thankful that I 

 had Prince Omar with me to keep the natives work- 

 ing. The hunter, who kills and skins his animals, 

 has a simple life compared with the collector, who 

 must not only take the animals alive and uninjured, 



