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plenty of them in that part of the country, as a report came to 

 hand that two men had been eaten by them at Quala Aringjust 

 before. Going- down stream we passed eight of them, — two old 

 and a young one, — that were disporting themselves in the jungle 

 close to the bank; but we were then just passing- over a rapid, 

 and travelling at a great speed, so that it was impossible to get a 

 shot at them. After waiting ten days the coolies returned, and 

 I started on the return journey to Kota Bahru, the trip down 

 stream taking only eight days, as all the rivers were in flood. The 

 men that I had left on my first trip upon the mountain I picked 

 up on the way down, and they stated that they had succeeded 

 in scaling one of the peaks of the Tahan, to the south of where 

 I got up, and they brought a fairly good collection of skins 

 back with them. 



I had to wait about a week in Kota Bahru for my men 

 from the Galas river ^ and then went back to Singapore, the 

 whole trip taking seven months instead of three as I had 

 reckoned on. 



