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 were required to manage the cavalcade, and that added to the imposing line.

Each elephant had a driver, either walking by his side, or riding complacently upon the elephant's head, while each bullock-cart had a driver, and some of them two. Then there were camp-attendants and cooks, for this great company would consume much food on the journey. It was two hundred miles to Singapore, and most of the journey was to be made on foot.

As the strange procession finally got under way, nearly all the Malay inhabitants for twenty miles around had assembled to see them off.

There was silence among all the wild animals, save in the cages of Black Langur and the tropical birds. The monkeys chattered, screamed, and swore, and every