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TPIREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
youngish beast which he would have spared had he known 
that his license could be utilised on some other occasion, 
Thi^ is of course an extreme idea, but it might occur, keeping 
in mind the very few opportunities that one has when hunting 
of getting a shot at all. In Pahang the big game laws as 
observed in the other States have not so ftir been introduced. 
The present regulaticms make it necessary to obtain permission 
from the Resident to shoot big game, a permission which 
carries nt> fee. 
It may perhaps have lieen noticed by those who have had 
the patience to read the fore|L;oing article that during m\' three 
months' hunting I came across many tracks, and heard a f^reat 
deal of more or less unreliable news of both elephants and 
seladang. It may also have been observed that 1 did not corae 
across many beasts of the "old bull" type. During the last 
few years the introduction of the cheap twelve bore shot gun 
and the granting of permission to natives in Pahang to shooi at 
big game has undoubtedly had its effect in making the older 
beasts very scarce and very wary. I believe that many sela- 
dang and elephants are wounded that one hears nothing about. 
I luLve frequently found native bullets in seladang that I have 
kilk'ii. Another point to be remembered is that natives 
cannot undeistand that a permission to shoot an elephant or a 
seladang is given to the individual, and is in fact a personal 
permission in the shape of a privilege or for some defmite 
object as in the case of Imam Prang Samah. A pass is handed 
on to the man in the kampong with the biggest reputation as 
a hunter, and if he is successful the beast is credited to the 
holder of the permit. As an instance of this I will give one 
case. When I was in the Ulu Tembeliug I was informed that 
a big tusker which was shot some two years ago under a 
permit given to the headman there, Wan Ahmat, was actually 
shot by one Dowd Kelantan, 3. professional elephant hitntcr^ from 
over the border. 
Not very long ago a headman was killed in the Jelai by a 
seladang which I believe he attacked with a tweK^e bore shot 
gun as his chief weapon. People who do these things require 
to be protected against themselves. The escapade of Iman 
Prang Samah has already been descrihed- 
l believe the objection to a Big Game Enactment in 
Pahang was that elephants did so much damage that it would 
be a hardship to the native cultivator if they were strictly 
protected. 
The damage done by elephants is often greatly exag- 
gerated, and anyway this does not hold good as against the 
non-protection of seladang and rhinoceroses. 
