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elephants and capture the young. I put stress on 
the royalty payments he would receive, and thus I 
won him to my way of thinking. 
He assigned his nephew Omar—a tunku—to the 
duty of assisting me, and gave him full power to 
force as much labor as we might need. A few. 
days later, Omar and I, accompanied by the Sultan, 
sailed down the coast to the Pahang. It was a 
wide, deep river, infested with crocodiles; settle- 
ments dotted the banks. At each of these we 
stopped and called on the headmen to conscript 
labor. 
Since the men had to supply their own food and 
travel in their own boats, the cost of the expedition 
was reduced to nothing. We arranged that the 
men might be replaced by others from their villages, 
because they were loath to remain long away from 
their families. 
Five days after leaving the capital, we arrived 
at the place where the herd had been located. We 
disembarked. There followed two weeks of hunt- 
ing before we found the spoor that told us we had 
reached the elephants. 
It was dense jungle; undergrowth, creepers and 
vines bound the trees together. The lack of sun- 
light and the dense atmosphere made progress 
slow. Sometimes the task of driving elephants 
on foot through such country seemed hopeless, but 
I kept the men at work, hacking out trails with 
parangs—their big knives. The insects were 
