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In the sixties.' — At Kewiliela-galaturegala, in the Ratnapura District, 

 organized by Iddamalgoda Basnayaka Nilame. 



1862. — Dumbaragala, in the Ratnapura District, got up by Hon. W. 



Ellawala. 



1863. — Ebbawalapitiya, Kurunegala District. Sir (then Mr.) Richard 



Cayley contributed charming letters to the Ceylon 

 Examiner descriptive of the kraal. 



1864. — Mahallegalla, in the Three Korales, undertaken by Eheliya- 



goda Dissawa. 

 Uncertain. — Mahinkandegala, by the same Dissawa. 

 Uncertain. — Maldeniyegala, by Mahara Ratemahatmaya. 



1865„' — Ayagamagalla, in the Ratnapura District, by Hon. W. 

 Ellawala. 



1866.— Nellugolla, Kurunegala District. The late Mr. A. M. Fergu- 

 son, C.M.G-., Senior Editor of the Ceylon Observer, 

 represented that paper, and his letters from kraal town 

 were deliciously graphic. See the appendix to his 

 " Souvenirs of Ceylon." Sir Hercules Robinson (after- 

 wards Lord Rosmead) was present ; also Sir Bartle Frere, 

 then on a visit to the Island. One of the captives was, 

 in honour of the Governor, named Hercules. 

 For a reference to this kraal see The Antipodes and Round 

 the World • or Travels in Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, 

 China, Japan, and California, by Alice M. Frere (Mrs. 

 Godfrey Clerk). Second edition, 1870, pp. 185 et sea. 

 The authoress (who was accompanied by her father, to 

 whom she dedicates her book, and was the guest of 

 Governor Robinson), had to leave before the kraal took 

 place. She writes : " It came off the day after our 

 departure, but was considered a great failure, as only five 

 elephants were kraaled that day instead of thirty. A 

 few more were taken the next day, but the sole excite- 

 ment appeared to have been the escape of one of the 

 tame elephants from his mahout, who, after rushing 

 about for some time in the crowd, was kraaled with the 

 wild ones." (Page 191.) Not the mahout, but the tame 

 elephant ! 



1870.— Kraal at Ebbawalapitiya, Kurunegala District, in honour of 

 the Duke of Edinburgh. Capper's Duke of Edinburgh's 

 Visit to Ceylon contains a graphic account. At Labugama, 

 Ratnapura District, a kraal was got up in honour of the 

 Duke by the Hon. W. Ellawala, Iddamalgoda Basnayaka 

 Nilame, and Ekneligoda Dissawa. 



In the seventies. — Veragamagala, Ratnapura District, organized by 

 Hon. W. Ellawala. 



