Sporting Notes in the Far East. 203 



board under my sun-hat. Later on the resident consul of the 

 Pappa River, a clever naturalist, confirmed my belief that I had 

 " flushed " a rhinoceros ! 



A rhinoceros was shot in the Straits of Malacca, by Lieut. 

 King Harman, R.N., of the " Mosquito." He spent a night, or 

 perhaps two, up on a machan, and fell fast asleep towards the 

 morning, drowsy with heat and unrewarded watching. The Malay 

 hunter woke him suddenly, and made signs to him to look and 

 listen : presently he caught sight of something dark moving in the 

 long grass, took a snap-shot and fired. After a heavy rush every 

 thing was still, and the native cautiously descended from his perch 

 and went to investigate. He found the brute lying down, and was 

 charged furiously directly he was seen ; overtaken in a few strides, 

 the beast tossed him with his snout and ripped his stomach open 

 to the chest, and itself fell dead a few yards further on. The native 

 was killed outright, and a post-mortem on the rhinoceros dis- 

 covered no external wound, he must have looked up at the machan 

 while eating, for the ball had passed down the throat, and his last 

 dying effort caused the death of his betrayer ! 



The ghaur or tissan* as they call Bornean wild cattle, frequent 

 river banks and any open spaces where the grass is most luxurious ; 

 Kinabatangan and Bengkoka Rivers are sure finds, but at the 

 mouth of the latter which flows into Malludu Bay, they must not 

 be mistaken for some herds of water-buffalo which have run wild. 



