The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1882-04-22
ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT.
An Elephant Hunt In the Ceylonese
Jungle.
Corr. .Sas Francisco Chronicle.

Corr. Sass FraHcisc0 Chronicle.
CoLoMBo, (Ceylon), February 4, 1889.
The presence here Of the two sons Of the
Prince Of Wales on visit has been made
the occasion for some fcstivity and Orient.
al display, and the spectacles projected vas
an elephant hunt, called kysml in Ceylon
and u h.ddaA in India, and conducted as
like California cattle rodea as is possible
with such large animals. The Enclosure
into which they are finally driven and Sc
cured is an actual corral, composed of pail
sades formed from the trunks Of Jungle
trees, from nine inches to foot in diane.
ter and eighteen to twenty feet long, deep
~ Undecided in the earth and stronghold by
transverse beams and diagonal braces,
strongly dashed to the uprights with natur.
al ropes of tough Jungle creepers. The
last affair Of this kind held in Ceylon was
during the Duke Of Edinburgh's visit in
1870, and the one now undergoing descrip.
ito" took place in nearly the same locality,
place called I.ah,,gama, twenty nine miles
distant from Colombo. Here in broad,
thick'y.wooded ravine bisected by a
stream Of Gear running water, the k,aal
WAS located. 1t contained about four acres
1T thick jungle through which paths were
cut angu'arly to facilitate locomotion. The
main entrance to this Enclosure was at the
lower end, and consisted of broad aper-
ture, capable OF being security closed at a
moments notice BY enormous bars.
Branching Off angularly from each side
were long lines Of barrica!es extending far
into the outer jungle in the form OF a fun.
mel, aud constituting what is known as the
drive, into which the game is forced and
from which 1t cannot easily escape, being
surrounded in the rear by huge bontires,
and a vast concourse Of people called
"oeaters," with the usual accompaniment
OF charmers and sooth-sayers, fiercc,y at
tack the herd, and with loud cries, plainlive
oh'urgations, or fierce threats and other
noisy demonstrations, urge the beasts for.
ward towards the entrance of the inner
kraal, into which they finally rush.
"A day of rest is then generally allowed
them, to endure starvation and some what
quiet down, and in the mean time tame
elephants are introduced and men with
axes PROSTATE most of the Jungle in the
V'c'n'ty ct the stands that are erected for
spectators ON commanding sites. just out.
s'ae the Enclosure, leaving only few stout
trees standing to be used as hitchiny. posts
tor the captured elephants. Next day the
prisoners are driven, or seduced one nv
one into the cleared space, surrounded BY
tame elephants, and ii amenable to sof,
o'ana'shments are cajo!ed by their cunning
e'..f'e'es in such temporary quiet or if saw
age and refractory pounded into such obe
dience As enables the clever poosers tn ~,
proach under the bellies OF their tam,
charges, and, by watching an opportunity
10 de<terously slip their immense RATA,
around the animals legs, between the lowe,
,o''t ana the foot. The ends being the,
''s'e"ea 10 the strong rope collars of tn
'"'e elephants, those majestic brutes witt
se" gravity march their captivcs off t,
.'' nearest tree, to which is transferred tb,
.'>'s"'nss, and the POOR astonished crea,,r
abandoned to all the horrors Of his s;,,.
ton, the result generally h.;,.,