Killed at the top of the Pass. Buck . Killed at the foot of the Pass. Buck . Killed in the river at the Pass. Killed on the patinas on Badulla road. Buck . Killed in the river at the base of Pedro.英文原著 · 《The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon》
Two Bucks . Killed on Kicklamane Patina. Two Does . Killed on Newera Ellia Plain. Boar . Killed on Elk Plains. Killed at the ` Rest and be Thankful bottom英文原著 · 《The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon》
Descending again to the plain, we procured some breakfast at a friend's house, and we started for the Matturatta Plains. These plains are about three or four miles from the barracks; and I had a faint hope that the buck might have crossed over the mountain, and descended into this part of the country to a river which flows through the patinas. We now mounted our horses, having been on foot all the morning. It was three o'clock P.M., and, with little hope of finding the dogs, we rode along the path towards the Matturatta Plains.英文原著 · 《The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon》
Suddenly I thought I heard a deep voice at a great distance; it might have been fancy, but I listened again. I counted the dogs, and old Smut was missing. There was no mistaking his voice when at bay, and I now heard him distinctly in the distance. Running towards the sound through fine open forests, we soon arrived on the Matturatta Plains. The whole pack now heard the old dog distinctly, and they rushed to the sound across the patinas. There was Smut, sure enough, with a fine buck at bay in the river, which he had found and brought to bay single-handed.英文原著 · 《The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon》
On December 24, 1852, we found a buck in the jungles by the Badulla road. The dead nillho so retarded the pack that the elk got a long start of the dogs; and stealing down a stream he broke cover, crossed the Badulla road, ascended the opposite hills, and took to the jungle before a single hound appeared upon the patina. At length Merriman came bounding along upon his track, full a hundred yards in advance of the pack. In a few minutes every dog had disappeared in the opposite jungle on the elk's path.英文原著 · 《The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon》
We had passed over a lovely country, and were within a mile of our proposed resting-place, when Banda, who happened to be a hundred yards in advance, came quickly back, saying that he saw a rogue elephant feeding on the patina not far from us. Wortley had gone in another direction with old Medima a few minutes previous to look for a deer; and Palliser and I resolved to stalk him carefully. We therefore left all the people behind, except two gun-bearers, each of whom carried one of my double-barrelled rifles. I carried my four-ounce, and Palliser took the two-ounce.英文原著 · 《The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon》