I Therefore Got Into The Water, Which Was Nearly
Up To My Waist, And Waded On Until I Was Near
Enough for a shot.
The difficulty then was to load my gun again, for I was so deep
in the
Water that I could not hold the gun sloping enough to pour
the powder in. I therefore had to search for a shallow place, and
after several shots under these trying circumstances, I was
delighted to see the monstrous animal roll over into the water. I
now towed him after me to the stream, but the Malays objected to
having the animal put into the boat, and he was so heavy that I
could not do it without their help. I looked about for a place to
skin him, but not a bit of dry ground was to be seen, until at
last I found a clump of two or three old trees and stumps,
between which a few feet of soil had collected just above the
water, which was just large enough for us to drag the animal upon
it. I first measured him, and found him to be by far the largest
I had yet seen, for, though the standing height was the same as
the others (4 feet 2 inches), the outstretched arms were 7 feet 9
inches, which was six inches more than the previous one, and the
immense broad face was 13 1/2 inches wide, whereas the widest I
had hitherto seen was only 11 1/2 inches.
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