162 THE TROTTING RHINO 



alongside the heart. And altogether fortune 

 favored me, for no one has license to venture after 

 seladang with a comparatively light weapon. The 

 head made a burdensome trophy, so we cached it 

 in a tree, a few days later, to send back for when 

 we had reached the Kelantan. 



Luck seemed to be coming my way with this, for 

 three days after I had bagged the seladang we 

 came into the country leading down to the Kelan- 

 tan and upon rhino tracks, apparently very fresh, 

 though in the mud and heat it was impossible to tell 

 to an hour. We camped on these the first night 

 and picked them up at daylight on the second day, 

 determined to follow faster, as the rhino was trot- 

 ting; always trotting, apparently. 



I told Nagh to let the camp outfit follow on leis- 

 urely, but I wanted him and another to come with 

 me, as I intended to move more rapidly in an en- 

 deavor to get near the rhino. So we kept at as 

 fast a gait as we could under the circumstances, 

 which was about twice the pace we had pursued 

 at any other time on our journey. But the tracks 

 appeared to grow no fresher, nor the rhino to 

 slacken or increase its pace ; always it trotted. 



Early in the afternoon Nagh told me that we 

 were not very far from the Kelantan and were 

 moving in the direction of that river, and not an 

 hour later, still on the rhino tracks, we came out 



