[An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies by Robert Knox]@TWC D-Link bookAn Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies PART I 75/117
His back stands up with a sharp ridg; all his four feet white up half his Legs.
I never saw but one, which was kept among the Kings Creatures.
Here was a Black Tygre catched and brought to the King, and afterwards a Deer milk white; both which he very much esteemed; there being no more either before or since ever heard of in that Land. [The way how a Wild Deer was catched.] If any desire to know how this white Deer was caught, it was thus; This Deer was observed to come on Evenings with the rest of the Herd to a great Pond to drink; the People that were ordered to catch this Deer, fenced the Pond round and plain about it with high stakes, leaving onely one wide gap.
The men after this done lay in ambush, each with his bundle of Stakes ready cut.
In the Evening the Deer came with the rest of the Herd to drink according to their wont.
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