IN SEARCH OF BIG GAME. 
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River as far as Kuala Bera where we stopped the night. 
It was necessary to make some alteration to the awning 
of my own boat which I was now using for the first time 
and which was mo?it uncomfortably top-heavy, and. as there 
was a Malay boat-builder there with some reputation as 
a workman, 1 arranged with him to do the work while 
we were away in the Jinka valley. We tried for teal and 
jungle fowl in the evening but were not lucky enough to 
come acoss any; there are quantities of teal all round 
Kuala Bera during the months of February and March, 
but later on in tlie }ear they break up their llticks and 
disperse, goodness only knows where. One occasionally comes 
across a few in the abandoned padi swamp<;, but never 
in the quantities that are met in the early part of the 
year. The following morning I crossed the Pahang river 
with a few days' supplies and struck inland for a place 
called Puchoiig where seladang and elepliants M-ere often 
to be found. 
There was some years ago, alas! I am afraid that he 
is no more, a very well-known seladang which frequented 
this district and was known to the initiated as the ** Seladang 
Puteh of Bukit Si Guinpal." I have never seen his fresh 
track, but on several occasions have seen old ones ; he 
must have been seen, a ven,' heavy and old htdb He had 
been seen by many natives and was supposed to have a 
white frontlet to his head in place of the usual tawny 
grev one; he frequentlv raided the young padi nurseries; 
and at times did considerable damage, apparently being 
unafraid of the haunts of man, a very extraordinary thing 
in a seladang. He lias not been seeti now for two or three 
years and Yasin told me that when he was in Pahang at 
the beginning of 190S he was told by some Sakais near 
there that they had killed a very large seladang which 
they said had entered their clearing at night, that he had 
a verv fine massive bead and w;is the biggest seladang 
which they had ever seen. No mention was made concerning 
the existence or otherwise of a white frontlet. This was 
possibly the seladang, and its noble head and horns are 
where? Rotting in the jungle; the Sakais do not bother 
about the horns as a rule, you see thcv cannot eat them. 
We had a fairly rou£;h walk to Puchong and on arrival 
there hunted up a Malay who was living in the old clearing, 
and inquired from him if he bad any news of elephants or 
seladang. He had plenty, but nothing had very recently 
visited his estate ; he, however, said that there \vas frequently 
an old bull seladang hanging about on or near the track 
