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titled to some doubt as to what the next few months 
would bring. The Sultan had left strict orders 
that I was to be provided with all the labor I needed, 
and Omar was there to assist me. However, I 
waited with anxiety to see what the attitude of the 
natives would be after they had finished celebrating, 
and I was encouraged to find that I had earned the 
name Tuan Gajah—Sir Elephant. They were deep- 
ly impressed by the power of the white man who 
had engineered a great drive of sixty elephants 
and who owned the exceedingly marvelous gun 
that his man, Ali, displayed with such proud osten- 
tation. 
Inasmuch as they were receiving no money for 
their work, they had some right to object, but I hu- 
mored them with promises of celebrations and 
games. The white man’s camp became a popular 
place in Trengganu. Wonderful tales of what was 
done there spread through the country, and the men 
who had been to the camp could command an audi- 
ence in their home compounds when they returned. 
~The elephant drive was a historic event in the coun- 
try, and henceforth we had little trouble with labor. 
The work of breaking wild elephants must be 
carried on with painstaking exactness, for one ele- 
phant can create havoc in a few seconds if the men 
lose control. The first task is the building of the 
stocks where the elephants are to be held while they 
become acustomed to men; then comes the work of 
driving into the ground, about four feet apart, two 
