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happened to camp at this place and the devotions 

 kept up until late into the night. 



It was our scheme to go up the Kampar for some 

 distance, eventually following to its source one of 

 the branch streams, and from there to start inland. 

 It was possible quite frequently to land and hunt. 

 Often we heard of elephants, sometimes we saw 

 their tracks; and, as we got farther up river we 

 heard also of rhinoceros. Frequently we saw deer, 

 which were fairly plentiful in the higher reaches 

 of country, but I never shot, because I did not 

 require the meat, and I could not spare space for 

 such trophies in my boats. At practically every 

 settlement, especially where deer abounded, we 

 heard of tiger and leopard. But as a whole, it did 

 not seem to me much of a game country. Certainly 

 I should never make another trip to that island 

 only for hunting. 



The Kampar and the Indragiri rivers are typical 

 of Sumatra— low, sometimes indistinguishable 

 banks, covered with heavy jungle, dense palm- 

 spear growth reaching ten to fifteen feet out 

 towards the middle of the stream. As we prog- 

 ressed toward headwaters and on to the smaller 

 rivers, the growth continued as dense, though not 

 extending so far from the banks. Here, as on the 

 Siak, and its tributaries, we heard the mournful 

 scale of the wa wa monkey, the loud single note of 



