278 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



sodden grass-grown tract. They do indeed find, at a distance of 

 a couple of paces, vomited blood and mucus, but nothing be- 

 sides this is to be found on the ground, which has been washed 

 thoroughly during the night. Several kampong dogs which have 

 been brought soon show themselves, as nearly always is the case, 

 to be not worth their salt; they run unconcernedly, after their 

 masters, and soon everyone is convinced that if they were not 

 tied fast they would in a trice give themselves a frightful indi- 

 gestion with the remains of the tiger table. 



'' The 14 hunters now disperse to examine the tract patiently 

 and carefully in all directions. One of the natives has had the 

 luck to see imprinted on an overgrown spot the footprint of the 

 tiger ; he goes in the direction towards which the claw points, 

 finding now and then an unsavory indication, and at length stops 

 at the edge of the densely overgrown steep ravine of the kali * 

 Tji Enggang, on a place where the tiger appears to have lain 

 awhile, and where he must have felt very unwell, as evidently 

 appears from a great mass of vomited flesh. Hurrah ! hurrah ! the 

 trace is found. The scattered company is called together ; two of 

 the most experienced trackers are sent on in front ; Djoeragan 

 A. S. follows ; his son pushes near to him through the brush- 

 wood that covers the steep slippery declivity of the ravine, in 

 order to press his father once more fervently to his breast : ' that 

 in G-od's name he would be cautious ! ' the coeks of the guns are 

 heard uttering a threatening ' tick-tack ' as they are pulled up, 

 and the long row goes forward descending slopingly along the 

 edge of the ravine (in a southern direction or up-stream ), led by 

 the two trackers, who now and then receive an admonition not to 

 be over-hasty and rather to wait a little when they might be in doubt. 

 " With the exception of several high but widely scattered trees, 

 this tract was covered with various kinds of brushwood, different 

 varieties of bamboo, and in many places thick with Honjeh f and 



* A brook, river. 



f " HonjL — A scitameneous plant, formerly called Geanthus speciosus, but 

 nowadays called Elettaria. The fruit grows on a stalk by itself and forms a large 

 round collection of nuts or pulpy seeds. Used by the mountaineers in cookiSp- 

 in place of Tamarind for the sake of its acidvilous properties."— "RiGG's S. D, 



