The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon

A first-person sporting memoir recounts big-game hunting and hound work on a tropical island, interweaving practical riflery and equipment guidance with vivid field narratives. The narrator sketches highland climate and scenery, estate life transformed from wilderness, and detailed accounts of elk and boar hunts that describe preparation, pursuit, and the baying of hounds. Observations on local fauna and vegetation are paired with advice about rifle calibres, powder charges, and evolving firearms technology. Chapters mix adventure episodes, hands-on hunting technique, and reflections on how settlement and cultivation have altered once-wild country.