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elephants had obligingly pulled down our camp. The rhin- 
Qceros tracks were quite fresh imd Yasin and myself followed 
them, leaving the others to repair the camp. About i o'clock 
we came fairly close to the rhinos^ but ii\ such thick juiif^lc 
where we could see nothing even within two yards of uf^ that 
I never had the least chance of a shot. We never got near 
them again and towards the evening we returned £0 camp. 
Neither t)f the rhinoceroses were particularh' big ones. During 
my three months hunting this was the only semblance of a 
chance that I had at a rhinoceros, although I tried to obtain 
news of them wherever I went. It should be remembered 
that Malays frequently state that they have seen rhinoceros's 
tracks when they have only seen those of the tapir, the former 
animal being undoubtedly very scarce now in this part of the 
Peninsula. We slept near Sesap Kepong that night and the 
following morning returned to our boat, poling up the river as 
far as Sungei Dua where we spent the last night of the trip. 
The next day, the 12th of September, I walked up to Pertang, 
my trophies and goods following in two days' time. 
CHAPTER VM. 
Conclusion'. 
Before closing this article I wish to make a few obser- 
vations on the present state of the game regulations as they 
exist in Pahang. There is an Enactment in vogue in the 
States of Perak, Selangor and Negri Sembihin w hich jirotects 
big gume, and which makes it necessary for those who wish to 
follow the fascinating sport of big game hunting to take out 
a license which varies somewhat in price according to the 
domicile of the hunter, 
I do not wish to go into the details of the Enactment, but 
would like to remark that the fee of $50 which covers five head 
of game, the fee charged to those resident in the Straits Settle- 
ments and the Federated Malay States, is only available for a 
full period of 12 months. Considering that a sportsman in 
this country would be exceptionally lucky if over a period of 
years he was able to average two head of big ^jame per year, it 
seems somewhat hard that the fee should only cover n period 
of twelve months. 
I do not think that the time under which the license is 
available in any way helps to protect the game, in fact it might 
conceivably work directly against it. Some ardent sportsman 
anxious to get his five head under a time limit might shoot a 
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