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Kuching stop under banian tree and sleep. Big sladang come, fight kuching. Baboo sorry for good kuching. Baboo hid from sladang, Aboo Din no whip Baboo?" His voice dropped to a pathetic little quaver, and he put up his hands with an appealing gesture; but his brown legs were drawn back ready to flee should Aboo Din make one hostile move. "Baboo," I said, "you are a hero!"
"Tiger over there, Tuan. Sladang kill. I hid here and wait for Aboo Din!" He touched his forehead with the back of his brown palm. There was nothing, either in the little fellow's bearing or words, that betrayed fear or bravado. It was only one mishap more or less to him.
We followed Baboo's lead to the edge of the jungle, and there, stretched out in the hot sand, lay the great, tawny beast, stamped and pawed until he was almost unrecognizable. All about him were the hoof-marks of the great sladang, the fiercest and wildest animal of the peninsula the Malayan bull that will charge a tiger, a black lion, a boa, and even a crocodile, on sight.
Conditions there are different, and usually the game is widely scattered. The sambar deer and muntjac of the dense forests, the axis of the bamboo glades, the thameng deer of the Burmese jungles, the sladang, or gaur, of the awful Malay tangle, and the big cats and canines will last long and well.
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