54 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 
gain immediately and made arrangements to re- 
cage the tigers and haul them by ox-teams to Cal- 
cutta. 
At Perth the directors of the New Gardens were 
so pleased with the tigers that they sent me a good 
bonus for my trouble in securing them. And my 
story about the thieves of Hazaribagh was the joke 
of the year. 
There came a dearth of good animals at Singa- 
pore, and so I determined to go into the state of 
Trengganu to see what luck I should have at col- 
lecting. Trengganu was at that time an indepen- 
dent state and had never been thoroughly explored. 
The Sultan who ruled over it was unwilling to have 
white men in the country because he feared that 
his state might become a protectorate of one of the 
larger powers. He was wise enough to realize that 
if a white r entered and committed some such 
indiscretion as interfering with one of the native 
women, the white man would be found with a kris 
stuck into him. And the result would probably be 
that the white man’s government would send sol- 
diers to depose the Sultan and take over the govern- 
ment. He wanted nothing more than to be left 
alone with his country, and so he made it a law that 
foreigners were not allowed. 
At Singapore one heard many tales of the wealth 
of animals in Trengganu, but it was generally con- 
ceded that it was impossible for a white man to 
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