IN SEARCH OF BIG GAME. 
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path passed, and at the edge of this clearing we made our 
camp. Thure was a Sidt lick quite close to the patii, and 
when Yasin was in this part of Pahang in 1908 he had seen 
many rhinoceros tracks at this lick and had also come across 
quantities of wallows and fresh tracks in the jungle in the 
vicinity. As a last chance I thouj^ht 1 would tr\- to pick up a 
sijecimen of a rhinoceros in this district as I was very anxious 
to obtain one for my collection. 
In the evening we visited the lick but there had been no 
rhinoceroses there for three months, in fact we found no signs 
of tracks at all. There was a broad game path leading from 
the lick in a southerly direction and we decided to follow this 
nti the morrow. Next duy we set out at da\'light and had a 
long walk without hndin;; any neu tracks idt hough we found 
plent}' of old ones. In the afternoon however we struck 
tracks which were about three weeks' old. We followed these 
tracks to " heel" for a short distance to try and find a lick 
\vhich was supposed to be in the vicinity. We presently 
noticed that someone else had followed this spoor, so to make 
matters quitt; sure we ccmtinued to follow the track antl were 
soon convinced that this particular rhinoceros had been 
quite recently hunted. No sane man except one after that 
rhinoceros would Iiave gone through the jungle we did. Late 
in the afternoon we came to a small stream where we found a 
comparatively new camp. The hut there liad been occupied 
by Sukais, and here we found what I believe were the rib 
bones of a rhinoceros. In the Bukit Si Gumpal district there 
are some Sakais who have guns and who were no doubt 
responsible for what we had seen. I collected what evidence 
1 could of their presence, which was sufficient to prove that 
Sakais and not Malays had been the occupants of the camp. 
Part of the skin of a monitor liisard and the shell of some 
species of tortoise, the owners of which had obviou.^ly been 
used for food, proved I think the presence of Sakais. The 
next day we scoured the jungle In the vicinity but found no 
new tracks although we found quantities of old ones and 
many disused rhinoceros wallows. We camped again at the 
Sakai shed. The following morning we returned to the 
Pahang River and crossed over to Kuala Semantan, where I 
once more partook of the hospitality of Mr. P. the District 
Officer, I told htm about the rhinoceros which I believed 
had been recently killed near Telok Mengkuang and gave him 
the "exhibits" that I had collected for evidence. I also gave 
him a written account of what I had seen. 
In a case of this sort one naturally wonders why the 
Sakais should go after rhinoceros, when they know perfectly 
