4 THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
nose pointing up wind, very occitsionally turning her head 
round to survey "the piidang, but never, as far as 1 couid see, 
putting it down to feed. Wo tried a manceuvre to reach the 
far side of thi^ clearing to get a better view of the bull, but 
unfortunately in carrying this out we had to pass very close to a 
half 'grown cow wlio» I expect, heard ns. Anyway by ihe time 
we arrived at the other side the entire herd had' vanished. 
However, we had a good evening's entertainment and I returned 
to camp well satisHed with what 1 had seen. If my old friend 
with the heavy breath had been there, perhaps I would not have 
been quite so contenled had 1 failed to get a chance at him. 
Early next morning I went with Yasin to the padang on 
the off chance that the seladang might be there again, and with 
setadang in the district one never knew when the old beiist 
might not turn up, but we drew blank, so returned to camp and 
were soon on onr way down -stream. 
We arrived at Bun tar shortly after ten o'clock, the place 
where the Pahang Railway crosses the Triang River, at the 
moment a very busy spot, construction work being in full 
swing. The temporary bridge spanning this river for construc- 
tion purposes appeared to me to be very near the water which 
was comparatively low for the Trlang; in times oi luravy flood 
some difficulty would be experienced in takin^^ a boat with an 
awning under the bridge at all, in fact it \\ould be an impos- 
sibility if the awning were a high one. 
We stopped here about half an hour, Ah Tong going ashore 
to buy some fresh provisions. While there he met a Malay 
who had been on a previous shooting trip with me who told 
him that he had lately been with Imam Prang Samah, the 
brother of the Raja Kiah, after elephants^ and that 'Mem 
Prang had wounded three elephants, one of them a very big 
tusker, somewhere in the district of Ulu Rompin, at least that 
was what Ah Tong understood him to say. I did not see the 
Malay, but as I hoped to see Imam Prang himself in a day or 
two I expected to get the news first hand from him. 
We pushed on dow-n river and arrived at Jerneh near 
nightfall where we made our camp, 
A herd of elephants had been along the banks f>f the 
Triang the previmis night, but no signs of a big «die with them 
so we did not bother about them. Jerneh is a great place for 
peafowl, I have seen as many as eleven at one time on the 
river banks, and on this occasion on the following nifirning we 
saw quite a number, hut were unable to get the chance of a 
shot. A young j>eaheii is a great delicacy, but avoid an old 
peafowl unless you have the teeth of a beast of prey. We 
came out on to the broad flood of the Pahang River about ten 
