Capabilities Of Ceylon--Deer At Illepecadewe--Sagacity Of A Pariah
Dog--Two Deer At One Shot--Deer-Stalking--Hambantotte Country
--Kattregam Festival--Sitrawelle--Ruins Of Ancient Mahagam
--Wiharewel1e--A Night Attack Upon Elephants--Shooting By Moonlight
--Yalle River--Another Rogue--A Stroll Before Breakfast--A Curious
Shot--A Good Day's Sport
CHAPTER VIII.
Best Hounds for Elk-hunting--Smut--Killbuck--The Horton Plains--A
Second Soyer--The Find--The Buck at Bay--The Bay--The Death--Return
of Lost Dogs--Comparative Speed of Deer--Veddah Ripped by a Boar--A
Melee--Buck at Black Pool--Old Smut's Ruse--Margosse Oil
CHAPTER IX.
A Morning's Deer-coursing--Kondawataweny--Rogue at Kondawataweny--A
Close Shave--Preparations for Catching an Elephant--Catching an
Elephant--Taming Him--Flying Shot at a Buck--Cave at Dimbooldene
--Awkward Ground--A Charmed Life
CHAPTER X.
Another Trip to the Park--A Hard Day's Work--Discover a Herd--Death of
the Herd--A Furious Charge--Caught at Last--The Consequences--A
Thorough Rogue--Another Herd in High Lemon Grass--Bears--A Fight
between a Moorman and a Bear--A Musical Herd--Herd Escape--A Plucky
Buck--Death of 'Killbuck'--Good Sport with a Herd--End of the Trip
CHAPTER XI.
Excitement of Elephant-shooting--An Unexpected Visitor--A Long Run
with a Buck--Hard Work Rewarded--A Glorious Bay--End of a Hard Day's
Work--Bee-hunters--Disasters of Elk-hunting--Bran Wounded--'Old Smut's'
Buck--Boar at Hackgalla--Death of 'Old Smut'--Scenery from the
Perewelle Mountains--Diabolical Death of 'Merriman'--Scene of the
Murder
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