A few weeks after Smut's death, Lizzie, an excellent bitch, was killed by a leopard, who wounded Merriman in the throat, but he being a powerful dog, beat him off and escaped.

Merriman had not long recovered from his wound, when he came to a lamentable and diabolical end.
On December 24, 1852, we found a buck in the jungles by the Badulla road.

The dead nillho so retarded the pack that the elk got a long start of the dogs; and stealing down a stream he broke cover, crossed the Badulla road, ascended the opposite hills, and took to the jungle before a single hound appeared upon the patina.

At length Merriman came bounding along upon his track, full a hundred yards in advance of the pack.

In a few minutes every dog had disappeared in the opposite jungle on the elk's path.
This was a part of the country where we invariably lost the dogs, as they took away across a vast jungle country towards a large and rapid river situated among stupendous precipices.