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become known as “Pompadour Jim.” My white 
monkey had a perfect pompadour on his head. Soon 
one of the newspapers printed a story connecting 
Corbett and the monkey. A few days later I sold 
the monkey for $1,500, and I then had enough 
money to start for Singapore. 
It was in April, 1887, that I left New York on 
the steamer Glenderrie. I outfitted in London while 
we lay over there, taking cargo aboard, and, be- 
cause I was none too sure what material I should 
need, I confined my outfit to clothes and guns. On 
the advice of several animal-men, I bought a Win- 
chester 50-110 express rifle that fired explosive 
bullets. The bullets contained a detonator and 
enough dynamite to stop any animal in his tracks. 
My revolvers were a Colt .45 and a Smith and Wes- 
son .38. The passage took seven weeks and during 
that time I became well acquainted with Captain 
Angus, who commanded the boat. 
_ When I reached Singapore, I began at once to 
learn the Malay language, which is spoken with 
some variations of dialect throughout the Archi- 
pelago. 
I called on Mahommed Ariff every day and 
learned as much as possible about the ways and 
means by which he carried on his business. Even- 
. tually I proposed to him that he let me act as his 
agent in interviewing the captains of some of the 
boats that called at the port. He agreed to my 
plan because there were many captains who would 
