Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . ack, and as I was without even the firstaid to communication which my Tamil servant(before I sent him back ill with fever) furnished,I had recourse to looking pleasant and offeringgifts. Finally we did go on, though the Malayshad no liking for it, and were sullen. There had been days of this kind of experience,so that when I actually came on fresh tracks, mythankfulness was both deep and sincere. At firstthe tracks were distinct, and I had no difficulty infollowing them, particularly where, for a consider-abl
Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . ack, and as I was without even the firstaid to communication which my Tamil servant(before I sent him back ill with fever) furnished,I had recourse to looking pleasant and offeringgifts. Finally we did go on, though the Malayshad no liking for it, and were sullen. There had been days of this kind of experience,so that when I actually came on fresh tracks, mythankfulness was both deep and sincere. At firstthe tracks were distinct, and I had no difficulty infollowing them, particularly where, for a consider-able distance, they led through what may be calleda jungle runway, which is a passage forced throughthe heaviest underbrush by the rhino, and of suchdensity that, were you standing within a half dozenfeet, the beast might go through unseen, thoughnot of course unheard. But on this, the secondday, the tracks led up hill from the swampy landof the valley. The rain was falling unusuallyhard, and the water flowed down the hillside almostin streams, making it, of course, very difficult to. THE SMALLER AND LESS COMMON TYPE OF SAKAI. A father and his two sons. They carry the poisonous darts in their hair, and very closely resemblethe Negritos of the Philippines. HUMAN Tlvi:i: DWELLERS L19 follow the tracksâsometimes entirely obliteratingthem. Hence I worked forward slowly. I hadceased to depend upon my men, though I kept twoup with me, leaving the others to come more leis-urely with the packs, so that at nightfall we campedwhere we happened to beâwhich was about asgood a plan as any other, for there was no choiceof camping ground in that country. All morning I followed the tracks with extremedifficulty, but in the early afternoon they led todrier ground, which as it approached the hilltopbecame more open, and, far in advance of my twomen, I pushed my way along more rapidly, withall attention focussed upon the tracks, and everyhunters sense tingling in exquisite and n
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