170 THE RIFLE AND HOUND IN CEYLON, chap, vni 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Heat-hounds for Elk-hunting — Smut— Killbuck — The Ilorton 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. 



The foregoing description of sporting incidents 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 Eates 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-barrelled 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 Piccadilly, who turned out the perfection of steel ; 



