66 GREAT HERDS OF GAME IN CEYLON. 



the gun did not appear to scare them : they would simply 

 retreat, and fresh herds were met with in following up the 

 one that had been disturbed." * 



Sir Samuel Baker and two friends killed fourteen 

 elephants in one day in Ceylon on December 6th, 

 1851, f and in a three weeks' jungle trip this party 

 killed fifty elephants, five deer, and two buffaloes. 



Referring to the vast numbers of elephants in that 

 island sixty years ago (say about 1835) Sir Samuel 

 Baker says: 



" Three men in three days bagged 104 elephants. This was 

 told me by one of the parties, and throws our modern shoot- 

 ing into the shade. This was at a time when guns were 

 first heard of in the interior of Ceylon, and the animals had 

 never been shot at." ** 



Returning now to the consideration of the great 

 African game country Mr. Edward Mohr, a German 

 traveller, in his " Victoria Falls of the Zambesi" men- 

 tions the case of a celebrated elephant hunter and 

 ivory collector belonging to the Cape Colony, named 

 Hartley, whom he met in the course of his travels 

 and who is thus described by him: 



" Hartley is an old man of about seventy, with a long silver 

 beard, who has been an elephant hunter since his 26th 

 year, and is well known from Potchefstrom to the Zambesi. 

 He told me that he had shot altogether over 1000 elephants, 

 and he is at present the oldest and greatest hunter of 

 Africa, south of the Zambesi. .He is of middle height, very 

 muscular, and strongly built, and still mounts his horse with 



* The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon, by Sir Samuel W. Baker, Edition 

 of 1874, p. 163 ; (originally published 1854). 



t Ibid., p. 342. See Chap. xii. Account of "A Jungle Trip." 



;< Ibid., p. 351. See same. 



** Eight Years in Ceylon, by Sir S. W. Baker. Edition of 1874, 

 p. 114 (originally published 1855). 



