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Page 5
... passed through years of wild sports from publishing an account of them . The fact of being able to laugh in your sleeve at the ignorance of a reader who does not credit you , is but a poor compensation for being considered a better shot ...
... passed through years of wild sports from publishing an account of them . The fact of being able to laugh in your sleeve at the ignorance of a reader who does not credit you , is but a poor compensation for being considered a better shot ...
Page 19
... passed , and he reaches the capital . This is worse and worse he has seen no signs of wild country during his long journey , and Colombo appears to be the height of civilisation . He books his place for Kandy ; he knows that is in the ...
... passed , and he reaches the capital . This is worse and worse he has seen no signs of wild country during his long journey , and Colombo appears to be the height of civilisation . He books his place for Kandy ; he knows that is in the ...
Page 20
... passed ; the top of the Kadu- ganava Pass is reached 1800 feet above the sea level , the road walled with jungle on either side . From the summit of this pass our newly arrived sportsman gazes with despair . Far as the eye can reach ...
... passed ; the top of the Kadu- ganava Pass is reached 1800 feet above the sea level , the road walled with jungle on either side . From the summit of this pass our newly arrived sportsman gazes with despair . Far as the eye can reach ...
Page 43
... trip accompanied by my brother , whom I will designate as B. We had passed a toilsome day in pushing and dragging our ponies for twenty miles along a narrow path through thick jungle , which half a dozen natives in advance were.
... trip accompanied by my brother , whom I will designate as B. We had passed a toilsome day in pushing and dragging our ponies for twenty miles along a narrow path through thick jungle , which half a dozen natives in advance were.
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... passed to one side ; stood , - he had not flinched , he literally had not moved a muscle . The only change that had taken place was in his eye ; this , which had hitherto been merely sullen , was now beaming with fury ; but his form was ...
... passed to one side ; stood , - he had not flinched , he literally had not moved a muscle . The only change that had taken place was in his eye ; this , which had hitherto been merely sullen , was now beaming with fury ; but his form was ...
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animal arrived Badulla ball Banda bank barrel Batticaloa boar Bran buck buffalos bull Ceylon charge chase chéna close coolies dead deep deer dense distance dogs Edinburgh Review Edition Engravings feet fired formed four-ounce rifle full speed greyhounds ground gun-bearers guns head heard herd high grass hill horses hounds hundred yards hunting immediately instant JAMES AUGUSTUS ST JUNGLE TRIP Kandy Killbuck killed lake lemon-grass length lost dogs miles Minneria morocco mountain natives Newera Ellia numerous old Smut open forest pack Palliser passed patinas phant plain Post 8vo price 21s Price One Shilling retreat river rocks rogue elephant rushed shooting shot shoulder side sport spot stalked stood suddenly tank tent thick jungle THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thorny jungle took trackers trees trunk turned Veddah venison village vols whole wild wind Wood Engravings Woodcuts Wortley wounded
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