Identifier: jungletrailsjun00whit (find matches)
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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and that in the colorsof their sarongs, in their ornaments and in theirwearing apparel, the natives affect almost exclu-sively blues and yellows and reds. It is a fittingharmony. Very often we heard the little deer (C.mantjac),plentiful throughout the Far East, which whenstarted barks much like a small dog and skulksalong with hind quarters higher than its shoulders.I already had a head, so did not shoot on any ofthe many opportunities offered. But I did bringdown a sambar, the common deer of all India andthe Malay Peninsula, which measured three feeteight inches at the shoulders and had a nice headwith six long points. Three times we found sela-dang tracks, and as many times followed themwithout success. And whenever we returned froma hunt, successful or otherwise, Nagh had a ratherpleasing habit of placing a wild flower over oneear, the flower facing front, where he wore ituntil he sought his bed. He told me it was an oldcustom of Sumatra. One day when we had halted at a small river
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THE MALAYAN WOMAN OF THE COUNTRY,■rears the same skirt-like garment, called sarong, as the men. only she fol Is it above her breasts. OF KELANTAN 151 kampong Nagh broughl into my presence an oldishMalay, who lie said had marked down a rhino— twas not specified whether its ears were tas-selated or no—which, the old Malay assuredme, I could certainly get if I would sit up on aplatform near by a drinking hole where the rhinovisited every night. I took no stock in the scheme,because, as hardly a day passed without rain, myhunters, if not my common, sense told me thatwater must be too plentiful in the country to neces-sitate regular or even occasional visits to a waterhole by a rhino or any other animal. Also I fan-cied Nagh perhaps wanted a holiday at the littlesettlement of a few houses where I had observeda couple of good-looking Malay girls. But as theplan offered a new experience in rhino hunting,and as I am always seeking to acquire experience—and knowledge—I went off with

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