CHAPTER VIII 



BORNEO 



Ax the request of the Directors of the Chartered 

 Company, I visited British North Borneo in the 

 spring of 1911, after my retirement from the 

 Indian Civil Service, to report upon the adminis- 

 tration. From England I went to India, arriving 

 there in November 1910; and from India, in 

 February 1911, I went on to Borneo, landing at 

 the port of Jesselton on the west coast on the 

 8th of March. 



In India I took part in a big bear drive in the 

 Poonch State, in the course of which, I think, 

 I killed one bear outright and helped to kill 

 another, and then went on to Dachigam in Kash- 

 mir to shoot hangul (barasingh). On the day 

 I arrived at Dachigam I shot two large male 

 black bears while still-hunting ; but on the 

 following morning I had an attack of malarial 

 fever, which compelled me to give up shooting 

 and return to Srinagar. After some days I was 

 able to travel, and made my way to Lahore and 

 then to the Central Provinces, but it was the 

 most severe attack of this fever I have ever had, 

 and I was on the sick list throughout the greater 

 part of December. In January I shot a good 

 sambur stag in the Tapti Valley, but this stag 



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