70 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 
mers wanted to buy, and I had the exclusive privi- 
lege—so far as foreigners were concerned—of 
hunting there. And, since the Sultan received a 
bonus on the animals captured, he provided me with 
labor. 
The Sultan remained several days and we spent 
much of our time in talking over the problems of 
government. These conversations ended by my be- 
coming a sort of foreign adviser in all dealings with 
European countries. Later, before Trengganu was 
made a British protectorate, he awarded me some 
valuable tin concessions. The new arrangement 
under the British government was made satisfac- 
torily; he received a suitable pension and he passed 
happily into a purely honorary position in his state, 
relieved of all the complexities of political admin- 
istration. When I last saw him, he was living in 
indolent comfort, surrounded by his wives—and his 
two-story brick palace was at last completed. 
It took more than a week after the departure of 
the Sultan of Trengganu for the natives to get 
their fill of celebration. While they feasted and 
danced, I made my plans for the stocks in which the 
sixty elephants were to be broken. 
The breaking of elephants, especially so large a 
herd, is a long, tedious job. I was thankful that I 
had Prince Omar with me to keep the natives work- 
ing. The hunter, who kills and skins his animals, 
has a simple life compared with the collector, who 
must not only take the animals alive and uninjured, 
