i68 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 



on our way to the Tungku's village. I spent a whole 

 week in working out different areas for snaring by 

 nets. 



I had nets made of twisted rattan in sizes of 

 twenty by fifteen feet with meshes six inches, other 

 nets ten by eight and five by five feet with meshes 

 according to what the net was best adapted for. 



The older men who could not follow the hunt, I 

 had put to work making transporting or rough 

 string cages and crates, for monkeys as well as 

 tigers. 



My plan was to work each section or area and 

 catch by either net or pit whatever we could. 

 Everything was in readiness to start at daybreak 

 the following morning, when a native came running 

 into the kampong, crying as he ran, "Re-mow, 

 Sa-tan" (Devil Tiger). The man was about to 

 collapse with fright and exhaustion from running. 

 I calmed him so he could tell his story, which was 

 that while he, his wife and daughter were gathering 

 some faggots not one hundred yards from his hut, 

 the tiger suddenly sprang from the thicket and 

 striking his daughter down, carried her off in the 

 jungle. After leaving his wife in the hut, he ran 

 to the Tungku's kampong to inform the Tungku 

 what had happened. 



As it was too late in the afternoon to do anything 

 I told Tungku S'lamen to send out the alarm for 

 all the available men; the alarm is sounded by the 

 striking of a hollow log, which can be heard for 



