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Chinese cook walked behind me and was very busy and useful 

 all the way. 



At noon Berkeley came in, saying that three of our female 

 elephants had followed a wild tusker — -undoubtedly the one 

 whose marks we had seen at the sira — and that he had left 

 Saiyid Wahab and three gembalas behind to try to catch them. 

 A little later the Saiyid came in looking very white. The 

 tusker had chased him. He had tired in the air and then 

 managed, just in time, to crawl under some fallen logs. 



Alang Sagor, the chief gembala of Datoh Wahab (the 

 Penghulu of Sungei Raia in Kinta), in his frantic haste to get 

 away had fallen on to a log and fractured his right-arm, half 

 way between the wrist and the elbow. He and the other two 

 gembalas had come in with Saiyid Wahab. 



Berkeley very skilfully set Alang Sagor's arm in bamboo 

 splints, but, at his request, took off the splint ; for Datoh Wan 

 Man had some jadam (asafoetida) in his bundle, and that 

 applied with boiling water forms a sort of a plaster. That 

 done, Berkeley rebound the arm in splints, and when two days 

 later we left Alang Sagor, and another gembala, Ismail, who 

 was suffering from fever, at Tapong, he told me that his arm 

 felt quite easy. 



It rained incessantly all that afternoon and until after we 

 went to bed, but I personally slept for nine hours and woke up 

 at 5 a.m., with my fever gone. 



The three missing elephants belonged, one to Datoh Wa- 

 hab, one to Raja Harun, and one to the young Datoh Muda of 

 Kinta, Berkeley sent away four gembalas from Kriong to catch 

 them. 



On the 31st July, Simmons and I, with Datoh Wan Man, 

 the leech-removing cook, and half a dozen men, crossed the 

 river on elephants and began our walk to Tapong at 7.20 a.m. 

 W T e immediately came upon the tracks of the wild tusker. 

 Datoh Wan Man told us that the elephant had left the females 

 and crossed the Perak river in the night to where our remain- 

 ing 18 elephants were turned loose. One of our gembalas, 

 going at dawn to catch his elephant;, saw the tusker and in 



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