IN SEARCH OF BIG GAME. 
5 
o'clock. The river was fairly hlfjh and it took us until noon 
to get up to Guai, 'Men Prang's kainpou^, which is only a Httle 
way up stream on the other side of the Pahang River. Imam 
Prang Siiiuah had gone down river to Kuala Bcra for a Malay 
funeral, but was expected back that evening, so I had to camp 
at Guai and await his return, becanse I wanted him to accomp- 
any me on my trip. 
When he did turn up, about dusk, I at once tackled 
him about liis late hunting trip, and soon had [ilenty to 
think about. It appeslrod that he had wounded, during 
the last tliree months, four elephants and bagged none, and 
to my utter disgust he told me that otre of the unfortunate 
four was the Jinka bull which I was so anxious to go after. 
He also incidently mentioned that he had lired at three 
sehidang, all of which he had missaL To make matters worse 
from my point of view. I felt that I was myself to blame, 
because I was responsible to a great extent for the pass 
which 'Men Prang had so grt>ssly abused. To depart from 
my hunting experiences, let me go back a year to explain 
how 'Mem Prang came to shoot big game, or more correctly 
at big game, at all. 
In 1908 I was in Pahang on business connected with 
the route -of one of the main roads, and 'Mem Prang went 
with me. I came down the Triang, as on this occasion, 
and picked him up at Guai. He was then in a great state 
because a rogue elephant had been doing a great deal of 
damage to his crops, and had repeatedly broken down the 
fence that was put up to protect them from the depredations 
of deer and pig. He lamented the fact that he \vas unable 
to shoot this elephant, it gave him no chance at night when 
in the crops because he could not see it» and it was forbidden 
for him to follow it up under the existing game regulations. 
I was then naturally unable to devote myself to sport until 
the completion of my work, but told 'Mem Prang that I 
believed, under the special circumstances^ I would be able 
to obtain a permit for him from the Government to shoot 
this pariicular eUpIiant. In due course t arrived at Kuala 
Lipis, and saw Mr. C., the Resident, and tcild him the tale 
of 'Mem Prang's woes and asked that a pass might be given 
to him to go after this elephant. 'Mem Prang also saw 
Mr. C., and was so pleased at getting a pass for the elephant 
that he at once asked for a permit to kill a seladang, any 
seladang^ which, rather to my surprise, was given to him. 
As events turned out, the result of this permit, which was 
renewed at the end of six months, was a long list of woimded 
-elephants and three very frightened seladang ; that is to say 
