 By the time of Large's involvement there was little communist activity and, despite months of jungle patrols and encounters with leeches, scorpions, civet cats and tigers, he never had any contact with MRLA guerrillas.While suppressing a rebellion in Oman in 1958, Large infamously lost his temper with a recalcitrant donkey.Recalling the incident in a 2003 interview, he said