36 THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
evening we were visited by some Malays, who lived close to^ 
who told us th^Lt early that morning they had heard elephants 
trumpeting in the vicinity of a salt lick which was close to the 
river bank about a quarter of mile above our camp. We 
visited this lick next morning, and, sure enough, elephants had 
been there, but although there was a bull with three or four 
cows, he was not a big one, and I returned to my boat to 
continue my journey. About lo o^clock we reached Kuala 
Tembeling, and stopped there for about half an hour, I saw 
the Government Chief, The Datoh Kakap, and I told him that 
I was going up to tlie Ulu Tembeling after elephant and 
rhinoceros and that I hoped to have some sport. He replied f 
that although he had not been up to the Ulu for a very long 
time that he had always heard that there were large herds of 
elephants there which were quite undisturbed. The Malays 
now never molested them, as they were not allowed to shoot 
them by the orders of the Government. I think he most have 
put his tongue in his cheek when he said that. 
I will not weary the reader with an account of our 
journey up the Tembeling, suffice it to say that the water was 
very low and the rapids very difficult to negotiate. Twice we 
had to take everything out of the boat, carry all our goods 
overland, and then haul the empty boat up over the rocks iis 
best we could. At Kuala Tahan I saw thr: boat of Mr. L., the 
Trigonometrical Surveyor^ whom I expected to meet at Kuala 
Sat. 1 learnt that he had gone tip to Gunong Tahan and on 
his return was bound for Kuala Lipis, so much to my dis- 
appointment I was unable to meet him. It took us five days 
to get up to Kuala Sat, and we saw very few traces of game 
until we were close to our d<'3tination. Then we saw the 
tracks on the river bank of two different herds of elephant but 
there was none of any size in the herd. 
On the 29th of July I camped in Mr. L.'s bungalow which 
had been built on a most delightful site at the junction of 
the Sat and the TembeHn<^, and in the evening made the 
acquaintance of one Awang :\li, who was reported to be a 
great hunter. He had certainly the gift of the gab; what 
other gifts he lacked were probably many. During the next 
few days I founi out several of them. When coming up 
the Tembeling' I had met one of the Ulu Tembelin.^ Malays, 
Che Wan Brahhii, who lived at Pulau Bepar. He had told 
me that there were elephants cnntinnally about near his 
kampong. and that if I would come up there— it was about 
a day's poling up from Kuala Sat — he would do everything he 
could to provide me with sport. I had iti tended to do this, 
but Awang Ali gave me such glowing accounts of the 
