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Peninsula. After many fruitless interviews on our 

 part and much procrastination on his, the Sultan 

 of Johore had finally given us permission to look for 

 tiger in his domains, and as he himself had already 

 vshot fourteen within a radius of seven miles of his 

 palace, the chances of success looked promising. 

 After a few days of beating the jungle, which re- 

 sulted in bringing out innumerable pig but not a 

 sign of tiger, Perry decided to abandon the quest in 

 favor of the wilder regions of Borneo, Wheeler and 

 I promising to follow him in another fortnight. Dur- 

 ing the next few days we were on foot from morning 

 till night, soaked to the skin one moment and baked 

 dry by the glaring sun the next. There was some ex- 

 citement in waiting on a narrow path while the dogs 

 and beaters approached noisily through the jungle, 

 for there was always the possibility and the hope 

 that a tiger might emerge within range, and indeed 

 fresh spoor had been found almost at once after 

 Perry's departure. 



Then one morning a sudden end was put to my 

 hopes of success. For the past week I had had con- 

 tinual headaches, and at times had found myself 

 almost incapable of standing. When finally my 

 temperature was taken, it proved to be so high that 

 no further doubt as to the presence of fever existed, 

 and I was obliged to start ignominiously for the 



