THREE MONTHS IN PAHANG 
easy. The Chinese cook, Ah Tung, was just an ordinary 
Hylarn cook of about 30 years of age, who had been with me 
for several years. He says he likes tlte jungle, always gets 
fever, can make very good bread, iuit was generally niore 
nuisance than he was worth. Mat Yasin I will not describe 
here, his description is so intimatel)- interwoven with this 
narrative that anything more than that would be superfluous. 
He has hunted with me for years, and has been in at the 
death of many a noble quarry. 
All aboard the lu^<j;er" and we start off from Kuala 
Jcrang soon after eigiit o'clock, two men poling- The Trian*^ 
is too full of snags to paddle a boat with safety, despite the 
constant expejiditure of money on clearing the river. The 
work being done by Malays is never done thnronghly, 
I did not intend spending much time lonkmg for game 
down the Triang, 1 knew where the best heads were likely to 
be found if they were in the vicinity of the river at all ; but 
railway construction and other annoyances have sadly inter- 
fered with the haunts of the Triang Ijig game, and the older 
beasts with their great cunning and tiieir fnio trophies are 
difficult now to lind in that part of the country. 
Near Fasir Neran there is sometimes tu be found a noble 
old sehidang who is generally by himself but occasionally with 
a herd. He is easily disiinguisl^iable because he m:ikes a noise 
when he breathes like a tank engine panting up a steep 
grade He has a track so round that most people would 
mistake it for that of a buffa^lo, and his horns — well he is, 
as far as I know, still alive and one of my readers might meet 
him, so I will not say how big his horns have appeared to me • 
but, if yoii come across him .and are anxious to get a 
trophy that will probably rival the great head that was 
short by Mr. da Pra and now lies in the D.O.'s house in 
Kuala Pilah, follow him up and get him if you can. He 
will be well worth an\' trouble that you may go to. 
Near Kuala Triang an elephant with a fair-sized track 
occasionally crosses the river; as he clambers up the 
bank, if it be steep, he generally uses his tusks to help himself 
up by; look for the marks of these tusks, and if the points rire 
about nine inches apart and you can comfortably get your fists 
into the hole, follow him also. He has got six feet tusks 
if they are an inch, but he is very cunning, I know; he bushed 
me once and I was very huiTgrj' for twenty-four hours, 
consequently I h;ive a feud against him; he is, I expect, still 
laughing because that little incident happened five years 
ago and I have never seen him again — but that is a tale that 
will keep for some other day. 
