I happened one day to kill an average-sized buck, though with very small horns, close to the road; so, having cleaned him, I sent a cart for his carcase on my return home.

This elk I weighed whole, minus his inside, and he was four hundred and eleven pounds.

Many hours had elapsed since his death, so that the carcase must have lost much weight by drying; this, with the loss of blood and offal, must have been at least one hundred and fifty pounds, which would have made his live weight five hundred and sixty-one pounds.
Of the five different species of deer in Ceylon, the spotted deer is alone seen upon the plains.

No climate can be too hot for his exotic constitution, and he is never found at a higher elevation than three thousand feet.

In the low country, when the midday sun has driven every other beast to the shelter of the densest jungles, the sultan of the herd and his lovely mates are sometimes contented with the shade of an isolated tree or the simple border of the jungle, where they drowsily pass the day, flipping their long ears in listless idleness until the hotter hours have passed away.