150 THE TROTTING KHINO 



wild flowers in reds and yellows grew in profusion. 

 It seems more than a coincidence that, so far as 

 my experience goes, very generally throughout the 

 Far East the wild flowers run mostly to reds and 

 yellows ; that the brilliant bird plumage is chiefly 

 yellowy and reds and blues ; and that in the colors 

 of their sarongs, in their ornaments and in their 

 wearing apparel, the natives affect almost exclu- 

 sively blues and yellows and reds. It is a fitting 

 harmony. 



Very often we heard the little deer (C. muntjac), 

 plentiful throughout the Far East, which when 

 started barks much like a small dog and skulks 

 along with hind quarters higher than its shoulders. 

 I already had a head, so did not shoot on any of 

 the many opportunities offered. But I did bring 

 down a sambar, the common deer of all India and 

 the Malay Peninsula, which measured three feet 

 eight inches at the shoulders and had a nice head 

 with six long points. Three times we found sela- 

 dang tracks, and as many times followed them 

 without success. And whenever we returned from 

 a hunt, successful or otherwise, Nagh had a rather 

 pleasing habit of placing a wild flower over one 

 ear, the flower facing front r where he wore it 

 until he sought his bed. He told me it was an old 

 custom of Sumatra. 



One day when we had halted at a small river 



