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THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
puzzled over the behaviour of this beast, and Yasin said he 
must be a "bantu!" Tired and disappointed we turned 
in very earl)', longing for the morrow and its possibilities. 
The following morning we got up much too early and had 
to wait in camp to allow the daj'light to appear. We intended 
to go straigiit to where we had left the tracks but again 
we found quite fresh spoor shtjrtly after leaving; camp. We 
carefully examined the tracks and Yasin thought that they 
were those of the wounded beast. However I was taking 
no chances as the jungle about this part seemed fnil of 
solitary seladang, so we pushed on to our original goal. 
After about an hours tracking we came back to the tracks 
that we had already crossed. Yasin was right after all. He 
seemed very proud of this, but of course it was only a lluke. 
The bull seemed to l)e going very strongly, in fact we might 
have been following an un wounded beast, and he took almost 
the same line as the one 1 had killed two days previously. 
He crossed the Krau and then followed down the left bank 
for some way before he turned up a side stream and made 
for higher ground. His tracks were still some hours old 
when we came to a place where he had stopped and had 
apparently looked around for a resting place. His tracks 
crossed and recrossed themselves several times and we wasted 
a good deal of time following those which brought us back 
to our starting place. While searching for the track which 
would take us away from this entanglement, and not for a 
moment suspecting that the seladang was close to us, I 
heard a slight noise which attracted my attention to a small 
hillock which was in the only direction where there were no 
tracks. Yasin, who happened to be close to me, looked 
up at the same time, and there was our bull, half-wa}' up 
the rise on the other side of the hillock with his head and 
chest showing over the top. I threw up my gun and as I did 
so he came up the hillock and in another instant would have 
been right amongst us. Again my bullet caught him tn 
the throat and he disappeared. We went cautiously up to the 
hillock and looked over to see the dead seladang and saw — 
nothing. 
He had vanished. What had actually happened was 
this ; he had come alopg a broad game path, probably having 
heard us when we scattered about trying to pick up the main 
track, and when I fired all he did was to fall backwards, 
pick himself up» and then quietly walk hack along the track 
he had just followed* Under such circumstances a seladang 
would make no noise, except when he fell down, and as 
this would happen simultaneously with the discharge of one's 
