Two natives stood there, dripping with wet and shivering with cold.

One had in his hand an elk's head, much gnawed; the other man, to my delight, led the three lost dogs.

They had run their elk down, and were found by the side of a rocky river several miles distant--the two dogs asleep in a cave, and the bitch was gnawing the remains of the half-consumed animal.

The two men who had found them were soon squatted before a comfortable fire, with a good feed of curry and rice, and their skins full of brandy.
Although the elk are so numerous at the Horton Plains, the sport at length becomes monotonous from the very large proportion of the does.
The usual ratio in which they were killed was one buck to eight does.
I cannot at all account for this small proportion of bucks in this particular spot.

At Newera Ellia they are as two or three compared with the does.