IN SEARCH OF BIG GAME, 
•saved the situation. When Yasin saw what he thought was a 
dead beast the body was lying on its side with its legs 
stretched straight out and with its hind quarters within three 
yards of Yasin. H*ad the beast been facing Yasin it would 
undoubtedly have charged and would probably have tjot one 
of us. Who would ever have expected a wonnded seladang to 
lie apparently dead for a quarter of an hour, during which 
time we were moving practically all round him, and then to 
suddenly jump to his feet without the slightest warning when 
bv all the rules of the game he ought to have been dend ? 
However it was a good lesson to both Yasin and myself, and 
showed us that we had still much to learn regarding the 
vitality of the seladang, I can only suppose that he was lying 
stunned and happened to come round just as Yasin saw him. 
Yasin*s mistake was perhaps excusable, I have never known a 
case anvthing like this one. A stunned seladang generally 
recovers his senses in a minute or two at the most, and it was 
not to be e-xpected, finding a beast stretched out over a 
<]uarter of an hour after he had been wounded, and within 
twenty yards of the spot where he had received his wound, 
that he could be anything but dead. 
We waited for half an hour and then took up the trail. 
There had not been much blood at first, which rather 
surprised me considering that lie was hit in the thr<>at, but 
presently we found a great deal. He had made one rush 
of abourit twenty yards and had then broken into a walk, 
stopping altogether after going another thirty yards or so. 
He had not turned round to face the music, so probably did 
not intend to charge. He soon got on to a well-defined 
game track and about every fift}' yards had stopped and 
left a pool of blood. We went very cautiously along this 
track, expecting to come on to him round every bend, and 
after followiug for about half-a-rnilc suddenly heard a tremend- 
ous snort ahead of us, a short rush, and he was gone. We 
saw* nothing except the waving of a few palm leaves which 
shewed us where he had been waiting. Shortly afterwards — 
he had now taken us into big jungle— I caught a glimpse 
of him, but could see nothing to shoot at. This was the 
last we saw of him that day. We heard him once late on 
in the afternoon, when we had followed his track into thick 
hluker and had gone right round him. He seemed to recover 
his strength as the afternoon wore on snd we abandoned the 
chase fairly early and got back to camp about five o'clock. 
We were not far from the river, having been hunting in 
circles, a favourite trick of wounded sekdang, but convenient 
as long of it keeps one close to camp. We were much 
