Before his Nile explorations, Baker spent years in Ceylon, and here he recounts hunting elephant, buffalo, boar and sambar deer, which he calls elk, with rifles and a pack of hounds. He writes about guns, dogs and the island’s jungle and hill country, with a later preface on breech-loaders.
A vivid record of colonial big-game hunting, its slaughter and its attitudes very much those of the 1850s. Download the free EPUB.