40 
THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
that when he had visited it he had always noticed many 
tracks of big game there. He said that he was afraid he 
could not go with me himself because he was not very 
well. I was not afraid that he could not go, I was quite 
certain about it. He asked for medicine, complaining of 
weakness in his limbs, and stiffness in his joints, but 
what cure is there for old, old age? His brain was more 
active than his body, liowever, and I get a lot of information 
out of him cuncernin}^ the position of the lick. I arranged to 
take the man that Awang All had first sent for, because, 
although he did not know where the lick was, he knew 
the river, and that %vcnld be of some assistance to us. I 
omitted to make a note of his name but will call him 
*' Gemok.*' He was very fat. At this spot we were fairly 
close to the Kelantan Border. The survey of the Peninsular 
railway whicli had follnw^ed the Tembeling and the Sat 
to this point now proceeded up the Pertang to cross over into 
Kelaiitan. The next day going up stream we had a good 
deal of trouble with the boats, the river being full of 
shallows. I walked most of the way, and tried unsuccessfully 
to shoot one of the many Ikan Kelak** with which the 
river seemed to be full. While I was wandering about 
from side to side of the river, crossing wherev^er convenient at 
the shallow places, I came across the faint tracks of an 
animal on some hard sand close to the ed^e of the jungle, I 
followed these tracks for a little way until I came to a 
bare soft place when I discovered that they were the tracks of 
a good sized rhinocerf)S. I returned to the river bank and 
called up Yasin who was close by. We examined the 
tracks and decided that the rhinoceros had probably crossed 
the river early that morning. I looked at my watch, it 
was now two o'clock. There would have been no chance of 
getting up tn the beast that day, althongh %ve would probalily 
come up to him on the morrow, and in view of the fact 
that w^e would have to abandon our visit to the salt lick 
if we followed the rhinoceros— our stores would not have 
lasted us out for both journeys — we decided to go straight on 
up river. I of course hoped to find rhinoceri tracks at 
the lick. We camped near Kuala Jentnh and fishing in 
the evening with " f'rasshopper " bait I was lucky enough 
to r.atch a two-pomid kelak which was a very welcome 
addition to the menu. Kuala Jentoh heinjj the starting 
place for the salt lick, we pushed on up there early the 
next morning and. leaving the boat and three men with 
instructions to them to put up a camp, we started on our 
quest. The old, old man had told me that if we followed the 
