26 
THREE iMONTHS IN PAHANG 
thick patch of jungle which I suppose the beast had sought 
out as a haven of refuge^ and we could only see a few yards 
in any direction. Still the silence, and we felt certain now 
that the beast must be dead. Soon a black form shewed 
up, motionless enough, but which could only be the body 
of the .seladang. When we got up to him he was quite 
dead, but the first {^lance at his head disuppointcd me. 
He had u very narrow forehead, and although the horns 
were a si;iable pair in circumference — 18" at the base— 
the general apj>earance of his head was poor owing to lack 
of breadth. The Malays who accompanied me were quite 
distressed because we only got up to the beast when he was 
dead» making the meat uneatable to them owing to the 
throat cutting ceremony being irnpossible, but the Sakais 
reaped the bencirt and had every bit of the carcase back 
into their settlement that night, bones and alb This bull 
was not the one with the wounded foot after alb There 
were a great many solitary seladang about in this locality^ 
and we had changed the tracks when we picked up fresh 
ones in the morning. My bullet^ as I had surmised, had 
hit him in the neck, but he had turned round so quickly 
when he made up his mind to go, that I had hit him on 
the opposite side of the neck to that which I had seen 
when I determined to fire. 
We found that we were not more than half an hour's 
walk from our camp, and the sound of the shot was quite 
distinctlv heard by those left behind. The Batin Uhi who 
was with us went back to bring his people to cut the beast 
up and we commenced skinning the head. While doings 
this we found two bullets in tlte neck, one peculiar inasmuch 
as it was made of brass and had probably been fired out 
of a twelve bore, the other an ordinary' small leaden one, 
but little bigger than a buck shot. Neither of the bullets 
could have been fired with anything like an adequate charge 
of powder behind them, or if adequate in quantity very 
deficient in qualit}' ; the penetration had taken the bullets 
only just beneath the skin. They had evidently been 
quartered on their unwilling host for some time becavise 
there were no scars visible on tlie skin. 
This seladang had horns which were jnst in the transition 
stage regarding colour. The horns of an old bull are of a 
beautiful shade of light oli\'e green with a welbdefmed line 
where the colour changes into black at the tips, the black 
being only a very few inches in an aged animal. The horns 
of a young seladang are of a light yellow colour at the 
base and gradually shade off towards the tips into blacky 
