CHAPTER VIII. 



BEAT-HOUNDS FOR ELK-HUNTING SMUT KILLBUCK THE HOR- 

 TON 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, '. 



foregoing description of sporting incidents 

 X closed my first visit to Ceylon. I had arrived 

 in the island to make a tour of the country and to enjoy 

 its sports ; this I had accomplished by a residence of 

 twelve months, the whole of which had been occupied 

 in wandering from place to place. I now returned to 

 England, but the Fates had traced another road for me, 

 and after a short stay in the old country, I again started 

 for Ceylon, and became a resident at Newera Ellia. 



Making use of the experience that I had gained in 

 wild sports, I came out well armed, according to my 

 own ideas of weapons for the chase. I had ordered 

 four double-barreled rifles of No. 10 bore, to be made 

 to my own pattern ; my hunting knives and boar-spear 

 heads I had made to my own design by Paget of Picca- 

 dilly, who turned out the perfection of steel ; and I ar- 

 rived in Ceylon with a pack of fine foxhounds and a 

 favorite grayhound of wonderful speed and strength, 

 *' Bran," who, though full of years, is still alive. 

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