12 
THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
•crossed during the nif(ht, and that about a mile down a 
solitary elepiiant had crossed yesterday morning. I enquired 
about the elephant bnt they said that he had not a %^ery big 
track. It was not therefore the old bull. 
We soon came to the place where the scladang had 
scrambled up the bank and followed a well-defined game track 
which, after taking us through some thick bluker, led us up to 
a large padang. The tracks were those of a large herd, and 
we would have the usual trouble to locate the bull if we did 
not have the hick to find them in the open. It was still quite 
early in the morning, barely seven o'clock, and as it was dull 
and misty we had every chance of coming up to them before 
the\' retired into the jungle. We passed through a series of 
padangs where the seladang had fed extensively, but when we 
came to what looked like the last one and still saw no signs of 
the herd themselves we were somewhat disappointed. They 
had scattered about a good deni to feed and it took us some 
Jittle time to locate where they had entered the jungle. 
Presently we found that by following the biggest track w'e 
were converging towards a corner of the jnngle, and here, just 
on the edge, we found a place where a big beast had been 
lying down. I stooped down and felt the *'form," it was still 
warm. We were now surrotsnded by myriads of ilies, a sure 
sign that the seladang were close at hand. I signed to the 
other men to stop behind and Yasin and I entered the jungle 
alone. Coming out of the padang the jungle at first was 
imcomfortably dark, and we had to go very slowly to avoid 
making a mistake. We peered here, we peered there, going 
down on our hands and knees to look under the smaller 
jnngle growth. It had rained during the night and we were 
able to creep about without any fear of alarming the seladang 
by the noise of our movemen ts. We followed I he tracks of 
the big beast and of course almost ran into a cow which had 
come from another direction. With a whistle of alarm she 
bolted, so did another a little to her right* still another beast 
moved away in front of ns, but it did not go <jnickly and did 
not seem alarmed. I followed it up at once. It had halted 
after going a few yards and I could see where it was quite 
distinctly but could not see its head, and I was most anxious 
to shoot' only an old bull. He moved off but again without 
much of a demonstration, and waiting for a few^ minutes we 
followed. Then I had a chance which I did not take and 
which onght to have cost me the trophy. We were going 
dowm a slight slope • at the bottom of this slope was a small 
stream, and as the opposite bank was fairly steep we hnd 
a good view of anything on it from our side. Suddenly I 
