THREE MONTHS IN PAHANCx 
seladang was dead, otherwise I should have been taken quite 
unawarei;, my attention being attracted to another direction, 
I was actiiafi}* within three yards of the dead beast before I 
spotted him. 
Again the Malays were deprived of the meat. The bull 
had a nice head alt hough, as 1 have already said, a young one. 
He had a peculiar reddish frontlet in place of the usual grey 
one, and had a much mure developed dewlap than any 
seladang that I have ever killed. My bullet of the previous 
day had bit him fairly in the throat, and the bullet that killed 
him had taken him almost exactly in the same place, the two 
holes joinint,' up, but imfortunateiy in taking off the head I 
was unable to find the exact line of my first shot^ and what 
direction the bullet took to stun the beast for a quarter of an 
hour still remains a mystery to me. 
Again we were comparatively close to camp, and again 
the entire Sakai population turned out to take the meat back 
to camp. But they left the big bones and the stomach this 
time. Even they were satiated. From the amount of meat 
they preserved I expect it took them some weeks to get through 
it a'U. There is little more for me to tell of what happened in 
the Krau. Next day we returned to Kuala Lempat— we 
cros^sed the fresh tracks of yet another solitar>- seladang on the 
way down — and camped some little way down the river. The 
following day we reached Kuala Krau and I camped on the 
river bank below Imam Doliah's house, I ]md news of a 
. solitary elephant which was reported to be in some bluker. 
near a Sakai clearing not very far from Kuala Krau, also more 
news of seladang in the same locality, but I was anxious to 
push on to the Tcmbeling where I hoped to get plenty of 
opportunities after elephant, and, as time was getting on and 
the journey up the Tembeling is a long business, I did not 
wish to give up any more leisure to hunting in the Krau, 
When we arrived at Imam Doliah's house I found old Mat 
Linggi there, and. on inquiry, he told me the story of Juanasa's 
desertion. Imam^Prang Samah, who had returned to his 
kampong from Kuala Semantan because his son was sick, but 
who had promised to follow me in a few days and rejoin me 
at Ktsala Krau, did not put in an appearance. We left early 
the next morning with the Pahang river in good trim for 
poling up stream, the seladang heack being left with Imam 
Doliah to be picked up on our return. 
