IN SEARCH OF BIG GAME. 
intelligence had heard a noise in the bamboos opposite his 
house on a Sunday night, and because some two months 
before the big elephant had been in that particular clump 
of bamboos also on a Sunday niji^ht it stood as already proved 
to this village Solomon that the noise must have been made 
by the same elephant. No elephant had been there at all 1 !! 
I spent two nights at 'To Mukim's kumpon^, and visited 
several padangs near at hand on the intervening day; we 
found tracks of elephant and seladang a few days* old, but 
never a si^^n of a new track of the old beast I was so anxious 
to have a shot at. It appears that previous to \\fem Prang's 
escapade this old bull had spent about three months knocking 
about the kiimpougs in the ulns of the many tributaries of the 
Jinka* and had done some damage here and there to coconut 
and kabong trees; we saw quantities of his old tracks— 
they were very large, over i8" in diameter — but he had 
obviously never returned since 'Mem Prang had wounded him. 
On the i6tb we crossed over to the Jnmpol and kept 
a careful look out for new tracks but with no luck. I sent 
two of my men back to Kuala Bera from the Jinka for more 
supplies which I told them to bring to my camp at the 
Jumpol by boat. 1 also bought a good supply of rice through 
'To Mukim» as I intended to spend some time making a 
wide cast to the north from my new camp to try and cut the 
tracks of the old bull, which I thought had gone in that 
direction after being wounded by 'Mem Prang, I selected 
a nice spot on the banks of the Jumpol for my camp, near 
to a Chinese Kedai, the owner of which was engaged in the 
usual trading with the Malays and Sakais of the district. 
1 got hold of a local Malay named Sahat who was supposed 
to know the haunts of the seladaug near by, and he told 
me that there were plenty to be found a little way down- 
stream and that he thought that he would be able to take 
me to them easily enough on the morrow* Unfortunately 
on the morrow this local Malay's knowledge of the jungle 
proved to be more in his imagination than in renlity. We 
found no new tracks;, and had some difficulty in getting back 
to camp. As Yasin had been here before, I consulted with 
him as to what to do. He advised that we should take a 
boat and go down river two or three miles to some padangs 
which he remembered were to be found close to the river 
bank, and this 1 decided I would do the next day. 
The following morning, after having paddled down the 
river for about an hour, we met a boat with my two Afaiays 
from Kuala Bera with the stores. They informed us that two 
or three bends further down the river a herd of seladang had 
