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Title: Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, Caspar, 1862-1929
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s he signed me a no, I signalledhim with my hands to remain up the tree to watchand listen. Then I completed another slow circleof the glade, at about the gait and much after themanner of a cat approaching a mouse. The sela-dang was still there. And by this time the after-noon was more than half spent. Then I heard amovement among the canes in the glade; it soundedto me about in the middle of the place, and Naghssignal indorsed my thought; but it lasted only afew seconds. Evidently the beast had no imme-diate intention of coming out; and I was beginningto want that seladang very badly. So as a prelim-inary to Aenturing into the glade, I went up a treeto learn the direction of the wind, if there was any,and to discover what I could about the characterand shape of the glade. I found almost no air,and that little blowing in my face; also I saw athick clump of cane standing up around a smalltree about fifty feet from my edge of the glade,which altogether did not appear to be over a couple
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OF KELANTAN 159 of hundred feet across. On the ground again Iprepared for a stalk into the glade toward the caneclump, by stripping off cartridge belt, knife, fieldglasses, brandy flask, chocolate and quinine pouch—which together with compass, watch and water-tight match box, each attached to thongs, consti-tutes my usual and entire personal field equipmentcompactly arranged in leather accoutrements. Then I removed my shoes; and with four car-tridges in my rifle and as many more in my trouserpocket, began my stalk. I never made one sonoiselessly; and I did not allow myself to think ofmy chances if the seladang broke towards mebefore I reached the cane clump. It seemed afearful distance to that clump, but finally its out-line was discernible; and soon I was behind it withhead close to the mud—the better to see throughthe brush—looking for the seladang. He wasabout forty or fifty feet beyond in a somewhat thin-nish part of the glade; at first I could only makeout his bulk, but sho

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