168 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 
on our way to the Tungku’s village. I spent a whole 
week in working out different areas for snaring by 
nets. 
I had nets made of twisted rattan in sizes of 
twenty by fifteen feet with meshes six inches, other 
nets ten by eight and five by five feet with meshes 
according to what the net was best adapted for. 
The older men who could not follow the hunt, I 
had put to work making transporting or rough 
string cages and crates, for monkeys as well as 
tigers. 
My plan was to work each section or area and 
catch by either net or pit whatever we could. 
Everything was in readiness to start at daybreak 
the following morning, when a native came running 
into the kampong, crying as he ran, “Re-mow, 
Sa-tan” (Devil Tiger). The man was about to 
collapse with fright and exhaustion from running. 
I calmed him so he could tell his story, which was 
that while he, his wife and daughter were gathering 
some faggots not one hundred yards from his hut, 
the tiger suddenly sprang from the thicket and 
striking his daughter down, carried her off in the 
jungle. After leaving his wife in the hut, he ran 
to the Tungku’s kampong to inform the Tungku 
what had happened. 
As it was too late in the afternoon to do anything 
T told Tungku S’lamen to send out the alarm for 
all the available men; the alarm is sounded by the 
striking of a hollow log, which can be heard for 
