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felt a drag round one le 
tirst to be a creeper. Glancing down, I saw, to 
1y horror, the loop of a dark-colored snake’s 
ody round my bare leg! Instinctively I jumped 
ynto the air, and the snake fell off and instantly 
panished among the thick grass. After a bit, 
vhen I had recovered my nerve, I walked 
lgain, with great precautions, into the grass, 
ind made a strict search for the two snipe. I 
ound one only, though two had dropped close 
fogether in the patch. Subsequently I came to 
he conclusion that one of my snipe was not 
juite dead and that the snake had seized it and 
vas carrying it off when he got a turn round my 
leg. This is pure conjecture, however, for I 
fever saw the reptile’s head. What kind it was 
' do not know, but in the instantaneous glance 
had of the body I thought the coloring re- 
narkably like that of a cobra. 
1 The paddy fields below the lake, from which 
hey were irrigated by an overflow stream, held 
lot of snipe. While at Kantalai I spent most 
wi my time in hunting for other game—spotted 
Weer, green pigeons, etc.—so that only three 
jlays were devoted exclusively to snipe. My 
yags were then sixteen, eleven and a half, and 
even and a half couple. I was, however, con- 
itantly coming across snipe when not specially 
jooking for them, and used to pick up two or 
‘three couple in odd.corners every day. One 
“yortion of the paddy fields was much disturbed 
by natives working, and the snipe used to leave 
Jhe open and lie just inside the heavy forest 
‘vhich bordered the cultivation. A native walk- 
ing inside the jungle readily put these birds 
ip, and they generally came out high over the 
ops of the trees. Snipe coming overhead are 
xy no means as hard to hit as one would ex- 
ect, as they fly straight and do not twist. 
! There is a little lake in the heart of the jungle 
‘ibout a mile and a half from Kantalai, where I 
pene snipe sitting on the bare mud in the shade 
f low, spreading trees which grew beside the 
Bier The branches of these trees were only 
meer a couple of feet above the mud, and the 
“snipe when disturbed used to shoot out from 
inder them like rockets. The problem was to 
top the birds before they got out over deep 
gwater, for the lake was full of crocodiles, so that 
jt was only safe to walk a short way in. 
In Ceylon are numerous grass tanks, as they 
are called. These consist of a sea of very high 
qzrass growing in a very little water. One day 
year Nalavile, some miles north of Trincomali, 
j{ was skirting one of these grass tanks looking 
‘or snipe, armed only with a shotgun and No. 8 
rartridges. Suddenly within a hundred yards of 
ame the huge head of a buffalo bull was raised 
jabove the grass, and the animal, with his nose 
jstuck straight out and his horns laid flat on 
ais neck, looked so ill-tempered and menacing 
hat I made a hasty retreat to a more distant 
Joart of the tank. I had often heard of this 
douffalo before and had been told that he and 
a solitary elephant were generally seen together. 
|The elephant, however, I never came across, 
sthough his fresh tracks were in all directions. 
At Tamlegam, between Kantalai and Trinco- 
yjmali, there is a celebrated snipe ground, where 
avery heavy bags are constantly made. I paid 
4a visit to this place, but found the walking so 
“heavy and trying in the hot sun that I gave up 
“after shooting seven couple. I do not remem- 
joer ever having met with such deep and sticky 
jgzround as that day in the Tamlegram paddy 
§Sfields. I went in to the knees at every step, 
jand it was the greatest exertion to pull my feet 
out of the tenacious sline. 
® There is a pretty little lake at Periyakulam. 
seven and a half miles from Trincomali, and 
iround its edges I used always to get a few snipe, 
but the extent of the ground is small. <A 
gorother officer went to Periyakulam one morn- 
g, which I took at 


f 


Jing, and found, to his disgust, an elephant 
“standing in the middle of the snine ground. 
|\From a safe distance he saluted the intruder 
with a charge of No. 8, and the elephant stalked 
away into the jungle. The big beast had, how- 
ever, effectually scared away all the snipe, and 
ajaot one was to be found. 
All the Ceylon tanks are full 
luring the heat of the day, when shooting was 
sut of the question. I usedsto fish for olive 
arp with a roach rod and bread paste. 
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