‘I used to kill him with a spear, in eye or ear or mouth. But Bereyo is a “modern man” now,’ he said, thumping his chest. ‘I take a gun.’ Closer questioning revealed this to be a sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun, which he had left hidden in his longhouse at Belinau. ‘He’s talking about Rhinocerus sumatrensis,’ I remarked to Lorne, of which the World Wildlife Fund says there are only about 170 left anywhere, and only 25 of those in Borneo!’ ‘How many have you killed, Bereyo?’ Lorne asked him. ‘Last year, one!’
