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Excerpt from Jungle Sport in Ceylon: From Elephant to Snipe
O those who are fond of a Bohemian existence let me recommend for real pleasure the life led by Sportsmen on shooting expeditions in Ceylon. The free-and-easy, do-as-you-like, go-where - you-please kind of feeling one experiences on these occasions, camping and roaming about with the gun at will, takes one through a wild-game country, with delightful changes of scenery. This, together with the varied animal, bird and other tropical life that meets the eye, the health ful, invigorating exercise, combined with the rough-and ready work and balmy air, form to my mind a most fascinating life.
Amongst other attractions for the sportsman the Island affords a charming and unique variety of sport, the game to be secured consisting of elephant, buffalo, bear, leopard, sambur, several other kinds of deer, jackal, crocodiles, wild pig, peafowl, jungle - fowl, many kinds of duck, snipe, plover, and a large variety of pigeons.
The fauna generally is very interesting, and the exertion and skill which have to be employed in its tracking through forest and other cover Sheltering it, add consider able zest to the pleasures of the chase.
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O those who are fond of a Bohemian existence let me recommend for real pleasure the life led by Sportsmen on shooting expeditions in Ceylon. The free-and-easy, do-as-you-like, go-where - you-please kind of feeling one experiences on these occasions, camping and roaming about with the gun at will, takes one through a wild-game country, with delightful changes of scenery. This, together with the varied animal, bird and other tropical life that meets the eye, the health ful, invigorating exercise, combined with the rough-and ready work and balmy air, form to my mind a most fascinating life.
Amongst other attractions for the sportsman the Island affords a charming and unique variety of sport, the game to be secured consisting of elephant, buffalo, bear, leopard, sambur, several other kinds of deer, jackal, crocodiles, wild pig, peafowl, jungle - fowl, many kinds of duck, snipe, plover, and a large variety of pigeons.
The fauna generally is very interesting, and the exertion and skill which have to be employed in its tracking through forest and other cover Sheltering it, add consider able zest to the pleasures of the chase.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Marcus W. Millett
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780260326966
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 317
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Contributors
Author
Marcus W. Millett
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781330186428
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 319
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