6 
THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
if 'Mem Prang's story can be credited that he missed all the 
seladang, but more of the seladang presently. 
This is a good lesson as to the evil that may be done by 
giving Malays passes to go after big game, even when they 
are known to you personally, even when you think that 
they can be trusted, and even when you specify the actual 
beast that they have to go after. Yes, I know that I was 
to blame for this especially bad case, but there are many 
others, and the whole question of game protection should 
be gone into with the advice of those who understand the 
subject J advice whicii I am sure those who have the 
knowledge would readih' place at the service of the Govern- 
ment if they were asked for it. 
I, perhaps, may be excused for being very angry with 
'Mem Prang about the Jinka elephant. He knew quite 
well that it was my desire to go after it on this trip because 
I had seen him a few months previously and had talked 
to him about this very beast, and when he told me that he 
had seen its tusks quite plainly and that they were at least 
four feet out of his head, I felt very like committing murder. 
However, there was no undoing the past, so I left the 
subject and we discussed the ways and means of our next move. 
CHAPTER IL 
An Elusive Elephant and an Obliging Seladang. 
I had only brought enough men with me for my boat^ 
so it was necessary for me to engage several more for any 
overland work tiiat I wished to undertake. Imam Prang 
Samali said that he would be delighted to g<s and that 
his son Ahmat would also accompany us. I figured out 
that I should want at least two more men and these 'Mem 
Prang was soon able to engage. The boat that I had brought 
down from Kuala Jerang I had promised to send back 
there — T had a boat of my own which had come down 
from Kuala Li pis which was at Guai — so I tried to cngngG 
two men at tht* kumpotig to take the boat back up the 
Triang, about a four days* journey with an empty boat. 
There were several offers but the kampoui:^ Malays at Guai 
valued their services at such a h!,^h rate that I could not 
come to anything like reasonable terms with them, and 
decided to wait until I returned from my trip np the Jinka 
and send the boat back with two of my own men. The 
next day, the nth of June, we paddled down the Pahang 
