

CHAPTER V. 



THE FOUR-OUNCE AGAIN TIDINGS OF A ROGUE APPROACHING 

 A TANK ROGUE AN EXCITING MOMENT RUINS OF POLLAN- 

 ARUA ANCIENT RUINS ROGUES AT DOOLANA B. CHARGED 

 BY A ROGUE PLANNING AN ATTACK A CHECK NAR- 

 ROW ESCAPE ROGUE-STALKING A BAD ROGUE DANGERS 

 OF ELEPHANT-SHOOTING THE RHATAMAHATMEYA'S TALE. 



A BROKEN nipple in my long two-ounce rifle 

 took me to Trincomalee, about seventy miles out 

 of my proposed route. Here I had it punched out 

 and replaced with a new one, which I fortunately had 

 with me. No one who has not experienced the loss 

 can imagine the disgust occasioned by an accident to a 

 favorite rifle in a wild country. A spare nipple and 

 mainspring for each barrel and lock should always be 

 taken on a shooting trip. 



In passing by Kandelly on my return from Trincoma- 

 lee, I paid a second visit to the lake. This is very simi- 

 lar to that of Minneria ; but the shooting at that time 

 was destroyed from the same cause which has since 

 ruined Minneria " too many guns." The buffaloes 

 were not worthy of the name ; I could not make one 

 show fight, nor could I even get within three hundred 

 yards of them. I returned from the plain with disgust ; 

 but just as I was quitting the shores of the lake I no- 

 ticed three buffaloes in the shallows about knee-deep in 



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