(1907) 1998 facsimile rep. Asian Educational Services. New Delhi. Ppii,xxiii,366. B/w photographs. Full gilt-decorated pictorial bonded leather. Fine.
Notes: Detailed account of Ceylon from a sporting point of view, drawn from the author's experiences between 1891 and 1906. Includes all representative sports of the day, including several usually overlooked as not dramatic or tropical enough. Snipe shooting, pigeons, small game hunting with dogs, tanks and tank shooting (wildfowling), quails, partridges, spur fowl, jungle fowl, pea fowl and others, descriptions of the hunting districts, elephants, buffalo, the Ceylon elk, deer; red, mouse, hog and spotted, the leopard, bears and water-hole shooting, pigs, fishing. Appendices on regulations, firearms, shikar equipment, shikar terms in Sinhalese and Tamil. This edition includes the original introductory note to a map on p366, but no map. Includes contributions from: Thomas Farr, E. Gordon Reeves, F.L. Reeves, M.L. Wilkins, J.J. Robinson, E.L. Boyd Moss, North C. Davidson, H.R. Spence, S. Payne-Gallwey, R.A.G. Festing.
