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THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
Tanuti Lantiii. There were a few rocks, ;l few innd pools, a 
very little «;rass, but no clearing to speak of. The jungle 
round the lick, however, was quite clear of undergrowth 
and one could see for fifty or sixty yards in some directions. 
The most attractive portion of the lick appeared to be a 
collection of big boulders which were on a small mound. 
Amongst these boulders was a small spring with a strong 
smell of sulphur. Peculiarly enough in this pool of water 
^e saw some horse leeches, and on agitating the water 
with one's finger the place became alive with leeches, wliich 
rushed up out of the mud directly they detected any 
movement on the surface. I conclude these leeches wait 
for the seladani( or deer and when they vij^it this spot to 
drink try to attach themselves to the beast's snout. 
After having spent quite half an hour following the 
tracks of the seladang and always finding ourselves coming 
back to the spring, I thought that we had better make a 
wide cast to try and cut the line of his exit, but this manoeuvre 
would have to be carried out very carefully because the 
chances were much in favour of the beast being asleep 
somewhere quite close to the lick. We returned to a spot 
where, when we had been following tracks, we had got a 
stron;^' smell of " seladang," and from here started to make 
a detour. I had scarcely commenced my journey when, on 
coming round a large anthill, I saw the seladang lying down 
abotit 25 yards from me. His back was towards me, and 
I could distinctly see his slowly heaving flanks as he breathed. 
The jungle at this point, with the exception of saplings a few 
inches thick, was perfectly clear. There was no undergrowth 
at all. Che Wan Brahim was close to me and I beckoned to 
him to come towards me and then pointed out the seladang. 
He took one look and started to shuffle backwards in the most 
approved fashion. Yasin was some little way off and could 
not see the seladang because it was masked by the anthill - 
I could not see his horns very well until the turned his 
head, when of course he saw me. Up he jumped and swung 
round. He was an immense beast, with tremendous shoulders 
and breadth of chest, but to my great disappointment I 
saw that he had quite a young head. His horns were long 
and had quite a good spread, but T only wanted the old, 
olive-green horns, and no stretch of my imagination could 
make that yellow frontlet into an olive-green one. I stood 
facing the seladang with my rifle at my shoulder and we 
stared at one another, HI said that we did this for two 
minutes I expect I should be accused of exaggeration, but 
it certainly was for quite a long time. It seemed like hours. 
