| //"Big Game Hunting. The jungle districts of Pertang and Jelebu and especially the valleys of the rivers Muar, Triang, and Serting abounded in 'Seladang' (bison), elephant, and rhinoceres. The Dato Raja Kaya of Pertang was the greatest hunter of the whole of the nine states. He was credited with shooting 15 elephants, 34 of the mighty 'seladang', and innumerable rhino. It was not impossible for a man of leisure who lived almost in the forest, and possibly hunted at least every week in the year to have secured this huge bag. The late William Hay of Selangor, who was also a mighty hunter, accounted for far more elephants than the Dato, many tigers, but only one or two 'seladang.'"// (The Straits Times, 4 December 1925, Page 10: {{ :akhbar:straitstimes19251204-1-2-77.pdf ||}} [[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19251204-1.2.77|"Bygone Negri Sembilan"]]). | //"Big Game Hunting. The jungle districts of Pertang and Jelebu and especially the valleys of the rivers Muar, Triang, and Serting abounded in 'Seladang' (bison), elephant, and rhinoceres. The Dato Raja Kaya of Pertang was the greatest hunter of the whole of the nine states. He was credited with shooting 15 elephants, 34 of the mighty 'seladang', and innumerable rhino. It was not impossible for a man of leisure who lived almost in the forest, and possibly hunted at least every week in the year to have secured this huge bag. The late William Hay of Selangor, who was also a mighty hunter, accounted for far more elephants than the Dato, many tigers, but only one or two 'seladang.'"// (The Straits Times, 4 December 1925, Page 10: {{ :akhbar:straitstimes19251204-1-2-77.pdf ||}} [[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19251204-1.2.77|"Bygone Negri Sembilan"]]). |
| | //"Mr. Granville O'Hara's Lecture at Hu Yew Seah: ..... I remember an incident where that wonderful Shikari William Hay shot a tiger and tigress within half a minute of one another. We sat up over a kill all night, the night being a bright moonlit one, evidently the tiger or tigers were aware of our presence, for nothing happened nor was the kill visited. Early next morning we came down the machan and went to the Kampong to refresh ourselves and returned within the hour to find that the kill had been removed. The examination of the ground proved that two tigers had removed the kill which was a bullock. Hay changed guns and armed with a 12-bore followed the track and came upon them sitting over the kill, which they had dragged in a semi circle to within twenty yards of the original spot under the machan. Without further aid, Hay bowled over the tiger with his left barrel over the kill and with his right barrel brought down the tigeress that sprang at him, the two shots fired being within a fraction of a minute. The tigress hardly had a skull left."// (Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 November 1931, Page 4: {{ :akhbar:pinangazette19311107-1-2-6.pdf ||}}[[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette19311107-1.2.6|"The Origin of the Malay “Ronggeng”"]]). |
