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and wounded seladang. Eeconnoitring the grass, 

 therefore, with caution and thoroughness, I found 

 the tracks, where they led up the hillside into the 

 jungle, and took up the single one which I assumed 

 to be that of the bull's that I proposed to follow 

 whether I had hit him or another. I moved for- 

 ward cautiously, for the seladang is as uncertain 

 as he is dangerous ; sometimes he will go straight 

 away from the man-scent or when wounded ; again 

 he will await the hunter within a mile of where he 

 has winded him. When I had gained the hilltop 

 where the tracks took me, I stopped and listened 

 long and attentively; then following along the 

 ridge on the seladang spoor, I thoroughly surveyed 

 every piece of thick cover in front and at the sides, 

 meanwhile taking up a position not far from a 

 good-sized tree. For a couple of hours I followed 

 up the tracks without hearing a sound, and then 

 a barking deer, which jumped up within a few 

 yards on my right, sent the rifle to shoulder in a 

 hurry— but it came down as instantly as the yelp 

 of a muntjac revealed the disturber. 



Another hour and the tracks took down hill, over 

 another and finally into a glade of lalang and 

 cane and brush. Approaching the glade I made a 

 painstaking stalk entirely around it. The sela- 

 dang was within. I did not dare to follow straight 

 up his tracks, because .there were no trees in the 



