frightful-wide

Updated: January 19, 2026

The country around Hambantotte is absolutely frightful-wide extending plains of white sand and low scrubby bushes scattered here and there; salt lakes of great extent, and miserable plains of scanty herbage, surrounded by dense thorny jungles. Notwithstanding this, at some seasons the whole district is alive with game.

Sir Samuel White Baker - The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon