44 TWENTY YEARS AGO 



(this latter in Ceylon and Southern India 

 replaces the Gladstone bag, as it is rainproof 

 and suitable to a coolie's head) to these latter, 

 I mounted and followed the active syce for 

 some hours along jungle paths, till, long after 

 dark, I heard a cheerful ''coo-ee," and was 

 soon shaking hands with my old school- 

 fellow, Erskine, at whose hospitable instiga- 

 tion my journey had been undertaken. 



When our dinner in the bare white- 

 washed room of his temporary bungalow had 

 been discussed, and we were ensconced in 

 two long chairs in the verandah, he unfolded 

 the plan of campaign. 



"The best chance you have of getting 

 any sport is to go straight on to the Anna- 

 mullais," said he. " Here there is nothing 

 that you would not get in Ceylon — sambur, 

 jungle sheep, and leopards, and, if you 



