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THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
a piece of horn embedded in his skull a little above one eye ; it 
was quite r small piece but there could only be one explanation 
as to how it got there, it would be interesting to know if 
other hunters ha\'e had similar expetiences. It might appear 
that the bullets which I had fonnd In this bull's neck might 
have had somethin;; to do with the battered state of his skull, 
l)ut I may say that their position and condition were such that 
the)- could not possibh- have had any connection with the 
damage. 
I bad a busy evening in camp cleaning up the scalp. 
Unfortunately the photos that I took of this beast also proved 
failures owing to the damp so affectin<^ my changing box that 
I was unable to open it without breaking it up. The 
following day I left camp at daybreak to explore farther up 
the river, hoping to pick up tracks of a solitary bull elephant 
which was reported to be in the vicinity. The previous day 
Ave had seen spoor about ten days old of quite a sizeable 
elephant, and as there was a large extent of l^luker, which 
extended for many miles along the river banks, it was quite 
possible that we might come across fresh tracks. We 
followed a game track which took us past the big clearing 
where we had left the seladang with the bleeding foot, and 
fonnd that, durtn,!< the ni^ht, a solitary seladan*:^ h^id also used 
this path. His tracks were cpiite fresh where w e picked them 
up on the path. Now. I did not want another seladan^ in the 
Krau, so did not willingly frdlow him, but we had to keep to 
the path which the Batin Uhi, who was with m. informed us 
would take us a i^ood way up-stream and would p;iss thrf>iigh 
a favourite feeding ground of elephants. After about half an 
hour's walking since the time that the seladang's tracks had 
first attracted our notice — he had never left the path— I 
stopped for a moment to examine the spoor in a place 
where the footprints were very plain, to i^^ratify my curiosity 
as to whether he was an old or a young beast — ^the outer ridge 
of the hoof being absent in an old bull as a rule — and I saw a 
root which he had trodden on and which was actually 
exuding sap. I beckoned to Yasin and he said that we 
must be very close to the seladnng indeed. Looking 
round when I stood up — -we were in bluker — I sudden h' saw, 
lying down not fifteen yards from the path, on ground slightly 
higher than we were, a bull seladang. He was lying with his 
back towards us and 1 could see the tips of his horns. He 
was not a very old beast and after having a good look at 
him^ — he was absohitely unconscious of our presence— 
1 was just starting to move on when one of my men, I think it 
was the Batin, made a noise as he retreated down the path. 
