58 
THREE MONTHS IX PAHANG 
after he liaii had :i brief look at the monster we hurried hack 
towards camp. We got in just before dark, ver\' pleased with 
our unexpected success. Wau Hadji was a changed man: his 
dejection at Pahmah Ruan when we found no sijjns of rhin- 
oceros was tjuite pathetic. Next morning leaving Wan Hadji 
to look after the camp, Yasin, myself and the tliree carriers 
went to the dead elephant to remov e his tusks and feet. This 
took ns all day, the clcphiinl having fallen in a very awkard 
position, as the accompanying photograph will show. I was 
not S'irry to get back to camp th-it night and haveagnod clean 
up after our driy's work. Wun Hadji told us many items of 
interest that evening. He said that he had hoped this big 
elephaTit was one that he hatl often seen the tracks of in the 
Uln Temheling atid which he had once met face to face. It 
had long thick tusks, one tusk being much more curved than 
the other. He thought however that the track of that ele- 
phant was if anything a trifle bigger than the one I had bagged. 
If this surmise was corrert it must hiive been a monster indeed, 
because the track of my elephant's fore foot measured i8i" in 
length, the track of its hind foot which was exceptionally long,. 
I9.§", The elephant measured as near as 1 could make it 
9'.6" at the shoulder. 
The following morning \\'as wet and cold and we did not 
get av\ny from ca^.ip until 8 o'clock. Then we had some diffi- 
ctilty ill getting all the goods together into suitable loads, the 
ordinary camp outfit being supplemented by about 150 potmds» 
the weight of the tusks and feet. Wan Hadji, who still 
seemed very pleased with himself, took one of the carrying 
baskets and lilled it up with ;;oods until he had about 60 
pounds himself, Yasin also made np a good heavy load as his 
burden and by degrees we managed to get everything packed 
away. Our rice had almost vanished, we had exactly enough 
for one more meal, but expected to meet Mat Linggi during 
the day. About two o'clock, c*>ming out on to the river we 
saw a small wreath of smoke proceeding from behind a htige 
stump on the opposite bank and sure enough there was Mat 
Linggi, the rice, and, the end of any anxiety that we might 
have had concerning our supplies. 
Old Mat Linggi said that he had had a most unromfortal>le 
time at Kuala Mahang; the first night nfter we h id left he 
spent up a tree, owing to the trumpeting of a herd of elephants 
and the roaring of a tiger close to the camp. Wnn Hadji 
comforted him by sa\-ing that no Malay from Pi dan Besar 
would under any circumstances have stayed by him.self at 
Kuala Maliang because the place was well known to he infested' 
with tigers. 
