PREFACE 



Mr. Thomas Farr, for his excellent chapter on elk hunt- 

 ing ; to my old friend Lieut.-Col. E. Gordon Reeves, for 

 his unique contribution on pig hunting, a sport almost 

 peculiar to that well-known sportsman ; to Mr. J. J. 

 Robinson, the veteran planter and sportsman of Passara, for 

 his exciting adventures in his beloved sport of elephant 

 hunting ; to that veteran sportsman, Mr. North C. David- 

 son, for his equally exciting elephant and buffalo adven- 

 tures ; to those veteran foresters, Messrs. E. L. Boyd Moss 

 and H. R. Spence, for their most interesting contributions 

 of incidents in elephant hunting, a sport of which they have 

 probably experienced more than any other man in Ceylon ; 

 to Mr. F. L. Reeves, son of Lieut.-Col. Gordon Reeves, 

 and a " chip of the old block," for his well-written article 

 on elk hunting ; to Mr. M. L. Wilkins, an old friend, and 

 one of the best shots with both rifle and fowling-piece I have 

 ever met, for his contribution on hunting with a " bobbery " 

 pack, and buffalo shooting ; to Mr. S. Payne-Gallwey, one 

 of that well-known family of sportsmen, for his exciting 

 account of Mr. Cecil de Winton's adventure with a leopard ; 

 and to Mr. R. A. G. Festing, for his excellent chapter on 

 Ceylon fishing. 



To my lasting regret I have never taken up photog- 

 raphy, so that I have had to draw (no pun intended) on 

 my friends all round for photographs to illustrate this book, 

 and I hope my readers will be satisfied with the result. My 

 best thanks are due to Mr. H. C. P. Bell, Archaeological 

 Commissioner to the Ceylon Government, for the fine 

 landscape photographs he permitted me to make use of, and 

 other sporting photographs ; to Mr. H. F. Tomalin, Pro- 

 vincial Engineer, for a number of excellent landscapes 

 (river and tank scenes) which he placed very kindly at my 

 disposal; to Mr. Thomas Farr, for the excellent photo- 



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