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Updated: May 20, 2025
Beat-hounds for Elk-hunting Smut Killbuck The Horton Plains A Second Soyer The Find The Buck at Bay The Bay The Death Return of Lost Dogs Comparative Speed of Deer Veddah Ripped by a Boar A Melee Buck at Black Pool Old Smut's Ruse Margosse Oil. The foregoing description of sporting incidents closed my first visit to Ceylon.
Natural forest, extending over the greater portion. Thorny jungle, extending over a large portion. Flat plains and thorny jungles, in the vicinity of the coast. Open down country, extending over a small portion of the interior. Open park country, extending over the greater portion of the Veddah district. The mountains, forming the centre of the island.
The custom of the wild Veddahs is to cover up their dead with leaves, then to desert the spot where they are laid; but we assisted in forming a deep grave, into which the body of the young Christian Veddah was lowered, while Mr Fordyce offered up prayers, that those who attended might all in time come to a perfect knowledge of that truth which had during the past night been so forcibly explained to them.
The wandering Veddah, with his bow and arrows, is occasionally seen roaming through his wilderness in search of deer, but the report of a native's gun is never heard; the game is therefore comparatively undisturbed.
In the meantime they chew the bark of various trees, and search for berries, while they wend their way for many miles to some remembered store of deer's flesh and honey, laid by in a hollow tree. The first time that I ever saw a Veddah was in the north of the country.
In the neighbourhood of Doolana I had killed many elephants some years ago, and I have no doubt we could have had good sport at this time; but V. Baker's leave was so fast expiring, and the natives' accounts of the distance through the Veddah country were so vague, that we had no choice except to push straight through as fast as we could travel, until we should arrive on the Batticaloa path.
"Oh," I thought, "who would not wish to die as that man we call a savage has died! What minister of Christ's holy truth could desire a more glorious, a nobler end to his labours on earth; standing like a brave soldier to the last moment at his post? I am sure that young Veddah has not died in vain. Those he has been addressing have deeply imbibed the truths of which he has told them.
The Veddah huntsman then approaches, and with a well-aimed spear, thrust where the spinal marrow and the brain unite, the creature's misery is ended, and he quickly breathes his last. It is said by those who are well informed about these wild people, that their best huntsmen are less cruel and equally successful.
The blades are themselves seven inches of this length, and are flat, like the blade of a dinner-knife brought to a point. Three short feathers from the peacock's wing are roughly lashed to the other end of the arrow. The Veddah in person is extremely ugly; short, but sinewy, his long uncombed locks fall to his waist, looking more like a horse's tail than human hair.
This he did, after looking for some moments at the sun; and, upon comparing the position with the compass, we were glad to see it at south-south-east, being pretty close to the course that we wished to steer. From Oomanoo, he said, we could procure another Veddah to guide us still farther; but he himself knew nothing more.
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