Rogue--Utility of the Four-ounce--A Curious Shot--Fury of a Bull
Buffalo--Character of the Wild Buffalo--Buffalo-shooting at Minneria
Lake--Charge in High Reeds--Close of a Good Day's Sport--Last Day at
Minneria--A Large Snake--An Unpleasant Bedfellow

CHAPTER VII.

Capabilities of Ceylon--Deer at Illepecadewe--Sagacity of a Pariah
Dog--Two Deer at One Shot--Deer-stalking--Hambantotte Country
--Kattregam Festival--Sitrawelle--Ruins of Ancient Mahagam
--Wiharewel1e--A Night Attack upon Elephants--Shooting by Moonlight
--Yalle River--Another Rogue--A Stroll before Breakfast--A Curious
Shot--A Good Day's Sport

CHAPTER VIII.

Best Hounds for Elk-hunting--Smut--Killbuck--The Horton Plains--A
Second Soyer--The Find--The Buck at Bay--The Bay--The Death--Return
of Lost Dogs--Comparative Speed of Deer--Veddah Ripped by a Boar--A
Melee--Buck at Black Pool--Old Smut's Ruse--Margosse Oil

CHAPTER IX.

A Morning's Deer-coursing--Kondawataweny--Rogue at Kondawataweny--A
Close Shave--Preparations for Catching an Elephant--Catching an
Elephant--Taming Him--Flying Shot at a Buck--Cave at Dimbooldene
--Awkward Ground--A Charmed Life

CHAPTER X.