22 
THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
quite half a do^en jilaces, but not a horn tip could I see 
belonging to a seladaiig* Suddenly a calf which was quite 
close to my ant hill sprung to his feet and stared hard at me, 
then turned round and quietly ambled olT towards the waving 
bhiker. This gave the alarm to the herd and there were 
several rushes into the jungle but never a seladang did I 
see. We made a detour to try to cut them off. Their 
rush was only a short one, and there was a possibility of 
getting a shot on the edge of the jungle. But our luck 
was not in this time, for in trying to approach the spot 
where we knew lliere were seladan*(, we almost ran into a bull 
that was standing quite still behind a thick clump of fern, 
and with a loud snort he rushed away taking the others 
with him. This scattered the herd, so we decided on a short 
rest and some lunch before we attempted to follow them 
farther. Afterwards we were able to pick out the tracks 
of . a big bull who had gone off by himself; and I hoped 
to be able to deal with him in a way that it is impossible to 
deal with a herd, but unfortunately he was joined by a smaller 
beast after going about half a mile and we had to fol low- 
two beasts instead of one. 
An hour's tracking brought us close up to them, and we 
finally got w^ithin fifteen yards but with a thick tangle of 
rattan intervening. We could hear them snuffing about quite 
distinctly. Suddenly one of them moved away to the 
left, cleared itself from the rattan, and gave me, for a couple 
of seconds, a perfectly clear view of its head. It was a cow. 
She almost at once saw me, swung round with astonishing 
rapidity, and was gone. The bull followed her, but I 
never saw him at all. It was getting late in the afternoon so 
we commenced to make our way back to our camp. On our 
way home we came across a herd of five elephants, two 
of them were calves, but there was nn bull wMth them. They 
were making their way in the direction of the Sakais' clear- 
ings; in fact they turned up near our camp that night. 
When we arrived at Kuala Lempat the two Batins were 
awaiting our arrival, and funny old specimens they were too. 
They were more or less respectably dressed, but the crowning 
glory of each was a gold-braided pork-pie cap which I expect 
was' kept carefully guarded only to be produced on special 
occasions. The Batin Hilir, the older of the two, was obviously 
the master-mind, and seemed a very capable man for a Sakai 
headman. He had a brilliant pair of black eyes which almost 
seemed to flash in the darkness, and altogether had an intelli- 
gence far above the average aboriginal. He w^as of opinion 
that if we came up to his place at Kuala Soeping we would be 
