The seasons in Ceylon vary in an extraordinary manner, considering the small size of the island.

The wet season in one district is the dry season in another, and vice versa.

Wherever the dry weather prevails, the pasturage is dried up; the brooks and pools are mere sandy gullies and pits.

The Veddah watches at some solitary hole which still contains a little water, and to this the deer and every species of Ceylon game resort.

Here his broad-headed arrow finds a supply.