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compass your way. Keep your feet clear, ready 

 for instant movement, and have always a tree in 

 your path and in your eye, for lightning quick 

 shelter in case there is not the time or the oppor- 

 tunity for a shot when the charge comes. 



There is record of a seladang killed that stood 

 six feet seven and a half inches at its shoulders; 

 but the average would be from about five feet ten 

 or eleven inches, to six feet. Of four I personally 

 measured the tallest was five feet eleven inches, 

 the smallest five feet eight inches ; and the biggest 

 head of which I found any record had horns with 

 a twenty and three-quarter inch base circumfer- 

 ence, with a spread of eighteen and three-quarter 

 inches from tip to tip, and forty-three inches as 

 the outside length of horn, and thirty-five and a 

 half inches as the inside length from base to tip. 

 Yet these are unusual and extreme measurements ; 

 and sixteen to eighteen inches is more nearly the 

 average base circumference, with a corresponding 

 fewer number of inches on the other measurements. 



Before we set out from Jelebu for our hunt, we 

 tried very hard to get Prang Doloh, who lived at 

 the edge of the jungle, and was commonly reported 

 to have, for a Malay, unusual hunting qualifica- 

 tions; but we were obliged to content ourselves 

 with Noa Anak, another native of higher social 

 degree but, as we discovered, less jungle craft. 



