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titled to some doubt as to what the next few months 

 would bring. The Sultan had left strict orders 

 that I was to be provided with all the labor I needed, 

 and Omar was there to assist me. However, I 

 waited with anxiety to see what the attitude of the 

 natives would be after they had finished celebrating, 

 and I was encouraged to find that I had earned the 

 name Tuan Gdjah Sir Elephant. They were deep- 

 ly impressed by the power of the white man who 

 had engineered a great drive of sixty elephants 

 and who owned the exceedingly marvelous gun 

 that his man, AH, displayed with such proud osten- 

 tation. 



Inasmuch as they were receiving no money for 

 their work, they had some right to object, but I hu- 

 mored them with promises of celebrations and 

 games. The white man's camp became a popular 

 place in Trengganu. Wonderful tales of what was 

 done there spread through the country, and the men 

 who had been to the camp could command an audi- 

 ence in their home compounds when they returned. 

 The elephant drive was a historic event in the coun- 

 try, and henceforth we had little trouble with labor. 



The work of breaking wild elephants must be 

 carried on with painstaking exactness, for one ele- 

 phant can create havoc in a few seconds if the men 

 lose control. The first task is the building of the 

 stocks where the elephants are to be held while they 

 become acustomed to men ; then comes the work of 

 driving into the ground, about four feet apart, two 



