IN SEARCH OF BIG GAME. 
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Yasin went up the river a little way to a kanipong where a big 
elephant was reported to have been a few days earlier, but 
from its tracks Yusln deduced that it was not worth going 
after. I left the next morning to m;ike a wide detour towards 
the north to trj- and pick op tracks of the big bull from the 
Jinka. 
Soon after leaving camp we passed the road survey of 
what I was inft>rmed was the route of the main trunk road 
from Benta to Kuan tan, altuu;^h it was difEcult to conceive 
what the road could be doing so near to the Pa hang River at 
that point. Possibly a direct route was not desired, but to 
anyone who knows that part of the cuuntry, and who knows 
that between the tilus of tributaries^ of the Tiknm and Lepar 
Rivers quile easy country is to be found for a road route, 
the decision to take the road through a portion of the Jumpol 
Valley means a very considerable lengthening which is not 
absolutely necessnry. 
For the next ten days we travelled in the vicinity of the 
idits of the Jumpol and the Jinka, finally fitiding our w^ay back 
to our camp on the Jumpol on the 28th of June. 
Three days we spent and many miles we covered 
following up a herd of elephants wliich was accompanied by a 
big bull which was thought m'v^hi possibly be the old rogue 
from the Jinka, only to find when we did at last get a sight of 
him tliat he had miserably small and short tusks. We were 
taken by some Sakais to a very large salt lick on a tributary 
•of the Jinka, the Taram Loket iiitnim is the local name for 
salt lickU but there were no signs of a new track there, in fact 
our journe}' wi\s unsuccessfnl inasmuch as the search for the 
old bull elephant w^as unfrnitfal, but we saw quantities of fresh 
tracks of seladang and elephant, which, had I not been after 
somt3 particular beast would have supplied us with plenty of 
sport. I fancy that the old bull elepliairt had made tracks 
after having been wounded l>y *Mcm Prang up to the head- 
waters of the Lepar w here he w onid be exceedingly' difficult to 
pick up owing to the difficulties of transport in such an 
oiit'of-the-way spot. 
Unfortunately I struck a nasty attack of fever on the 
journev which delayed us a little, and when I arrived back at 
the Jurnpol 1 was not feeling very fit. 
W(! left the next morning by* boat for Kuala Bera, half my 
men going back overland. About halfway down the river we 
"Were hailed by some Malay women who were on the bank w^ho 
told us that for the last two nights an elephant had visited 
their clearing which was about a mile iidand, and had done a 
;good deal of daniiige to their plantains and Indian corn. 
