150 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 



they snarled at us and reached out between the bars. 

 Natives armed with sharpened poles held them back. 

 Then, by poking and prodding, we separated them 

 and ran bars through the center of the big cage. 

 These operations excited the beasts so greatly that 

 we left off work for the day. The next morning 

 we went to the cage again and cut away the end- 

 bars so that the animals could enter their trans- 

 portation cages. These gave them more room, and 

 I stationed an extra guard over them with instruc- 

 tions to call me immediately if they began to tear 

 at the bars. AH spent practically all of his time 

 there, talking to them and feeding them. Grad- 

 ually they became accustomed to him, and, although 

 they were far from accepting him as a friend, they 

 did know him and realize that he was not there to 

 hurt or annoy them. All others, except the head- 

 men and myself, were kept away from the cages. 



Food was always placed in the transportation 

 cages, and, since the animals were deprived of each 

 other's company, they became accustomed to spend- 

 ing their time in them. That, of course, was exactly 

 what I wanted, and the prospects looked more 

 encouraging each day. 



We spent the next two weeks in trapping and 

 snaring, and I kept the men of the kampong busy 

 all the time, either at collecting the animals or at 

 building cages for them. I was fortunate enough 

 to get one proboscis monkey. It is a rare, long- 

 nosed species, difficult to capture. My standing 



