Smooth-bores I count for nothing, although I have frequently used them.
So much for guns.

It may therefore be summed up that the proper battery for Ceylon shooting would be four large-bored double-barrelled rifles, say from No.

10 to No.

12 in size, but all to be the same bore, so as to prevent confusion in loading.

Persons may suit their own fancy as to the weight of their guns, bearing in mind that single barrels are very useless things.
Next to the 'Rifle' in the order of description comes the 'Hound.' The 'elk' is his acknowledged game, and an account of this animal's size and strength will prove the necessity of a superior breed of hound.
The 'elk' is a Ceylon blunder and a misnomer.