HUNTING & SHOOTING IN CEYLON 



The cause of his lameness was explained by the accidental 

 shot having taken him just below the joint of the knee. The 

 bullet had gone completely round under the skin and come 

 out at the back under the knee. This must have numbed 

 the leg, and accounted for his swaying his foot over me 

 in such an extraordinary manner. The two stunning shots 

 in the forehead, which must have both gone close to the 

 brain, must have dulled his senses, which, with the heavy 

 smelling smoke, prevented his noticing me lying at his feet. 

 It was the narrowest shave I have ever had. This elephant 

 meant fighting from the very first, and must have noticed 

 us when we were on the hog's-back rock. Had I not 

 stumbled I think I should either have downed him or 

 turned him with my second barrel, as I am convinced no 

 elephant will charge through a well-placed shot from a 

 heavy 12-bore. 



AN ADVENTURE WITH A ROGUE ELEPHANT 

 BY E. L. BOYD MOSS, Assistant Conservator of Forests 



In July 1888 I was down in the Kattragam district 

 with my brother and a friend. We were camped on the 

 banks of the Menik Ganga, at a place called Demodera. 

 We had a tent 17 by 12, and the servants and the coolies 

 had huts thatched with iluk grass. The stables for the 

 horses were the same. 



The river here is of the same character as at Yalle, 

 and the country about, except the usual strip of fine open 

 forest on either bank of the river, consists mostly of thick 

 thorny jungle interspersed with glades, a good country for 

 buffaloes, deer, &c. 



We had been shooting here for some days, and had 

 not come across a single elephant. One night, about 2 A.M., 



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