IN SEARCH OF BIG GAME. 
that district is flat or very slightly undulating and a direct 
route coy Id easily have been obtained from Buntar to 
the 42nd mile- It is, however, hardly conceivable to me 
that this proposed road could be for the purpose of connecting 
Benton;^ and the Railway, the distance being about sixty 
miles by following the Triang River and joining on to 
the main road at the 42tid mile. Supposing that it was 
necessary to join Bentong with the Triang Station rather 
than with the nearer station on the Seniantan River a 
road trace could easit}- have been foiirul from the foot 
of the watershed on the Triang side which would consider- 
ably shorten the distance to Bentong. I personally know 
this country, and am convinced that no route for a road 
to connect Bentong, or the Bentong Road, and the Triang 
Railway Station should follow the Triang, The Triang 
River h liable to very heavy floods and any wi?e engineer 
who knew the country would leave the vicinity of the 
river as soon as possible when laying out a road survey. 
We arrived at Sesap Kepong early in the afternoon 
^ind made a camp about a quarter of a mile away from 
the lick on the banks of a small stream. Later on we 
went into the lick and found old rhinoceros tracks and 
the comparatively fresh tracks of a very big elepliant. 
This elephant proved to be the old bull which I mentioned in 
my hist chapter that occasionally crossed the Triang 
nj?ar Knala Pertang Kanan. I was very pleased at finding 
his tracks which appeared to be about thirty hours old, 
and looked frjrward lo meeting this old warrior at last. 
I do not knctw what was the mntter with this ele]ihant, 
something out of the ordinary undoubtedly. Round about 
the salt lick he had pulled over and pushed down about 
a do^en trees several of which were quite big ones. In 
fact he had " p!a3'ed tlfe devil" all round the place. 
Something had annoyed him. 
We found that within the last twelve months some 
enterprising gentlemen had been trying to kill rhinoceroses 
here— the spot was a favourite one for rhino— by setting 
several beylantck {spring spears) on the main game tracks 
into the lick. I do not know whether they had been 
successful or not. Starting at daylight next morning we 
hoped to catch up to the elephant in two days at the 
out^iide. He had made for a well-known elephant wallow 
called *' Kubang Ebit" which lies almost due west from 
Sesfip Kepong. Weil we followed that elephant for six 
days and at the end of that time were no nearer to him 
than we %vere when we started. First of all he passed 
