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not know and his pride suffer humiliation, and 

 had a heart-to-heart talk with him. He would not 

 acknowledge himself lost, but he did confess that 

 he seemed unable to find the range where he had 

 " heard " of seladang in plenty; thus we learned 

 out in the jungle that he had only heard of the 

 seladang which so definitely and so often he had 

 said in Jelebu that he had " seen." 



It was a situation to which mere words would 

 not do justice— days of tramping under the direc- 

 tion of a man who did not know where he was 

 going. Only the purest accident would have 

 brought us to seladang, and such accidents do not 

 often happen. Travelling by the sun, to see which 

 we had at times to climb a tall tree standing above 

 the jungle growth, we turned our steps towards 

 Jelebu— always keeping an eye out for the quarry 

 we sought, but losing no time in reaching a place 

 where our conscience would permit us to point Noa 

 for his home. 



We had scarcely a hope now of seeing seladang 

 —and we were not disappointed, for very soon we 

 ran out even of their tracks. Diligent searching 

 brought us no results, and we had finally to return 

 to Scott's bungalow after a fruitless, but inter- 

 esting, search for Noa's lost seladang. 



