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THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
Tembeling. The following morning 1 said good-bye to Wan 
Hadji with many regrets. He had shown me a great deal of 
more or less unknown country, and had enabled me to add a 
line trophy to my collection. Going down the Tembeling we 
very nearly lost everythin*^ in Jenun Pandjang, losing control 
of the boat which fortunately managed to keep its "feet." 
What vast possibilities the enormous volumes of water that 
comes down the Tembeling suggests to one's mind. Possibly 
in some future age this power will be harnessed in the service 
of man, and the haunts of the elephant and seladang given 
over to the thunder of machinery generating power for the 
electrically worked Peninsular Gyrascope Railway, 
On the 22iid of August I slept at Kuala Tembeling, and 
was shewn there a line male Marbled Cat ffelis marmorata) 
which the owner had lately trapped. He thought it was a 
young tiger and was going to send it down to the Sultan at 
Pekan. The Malays in Jelebu call this cat riman iotok or totoK 
owing to its peculiar bird-Hke call. 
Mat Yasin told me after we had left Pidau Besar, and 
after it was impossible for me to question Wan Hadji on the 
subject, that Wan Hadji had told him that he knew of several 
Malays who had killed rhinoceroses up near Pamah Ruan 
when' they were gctah hunting, but that it was a year or so ago 
and that he had no idea they had so thoroughly cleared the 
place of rhitiocernse>. That the rhinoceros badly w^ants 
protecting if it is not to be exterminated altogether from these 
States a further incident in my next chapter will I think shew, 
but how it is to be done is a very difHcuh question. 
CHAPTER VL 
WANTED, A RHINOCKKOS? 
On mv way down the Pahnng River I stopped at Kuala 
Krau to collect my two seladang skulls, and on the night of 
the 24th August slept at Kuala Tekal. I sf>ent some time the 
next day investigating a story I had heard of a big elephant 
%vhich was sup^>osed to be in the vicinity of Kerdau, but 
although we had a long tramp found no elephant tracks 
except those of a few small cows and a young bull, I pro- 
ceeded to Badoh where I slept the night. Next morning we 
went on to Kuala Semantan where 1 picked up my letters and 
then returned up stream to Telok Mengkuang on a short trip 
after rhinoceros. Following the native path towards Bukit 
Si Gumpal we soon came to a clearing through whtcb the 
