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*''The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon'' by Samuel W Baker [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7fsTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 1854 edition] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/riflehoundinceyl00bakerich New edition 1874] Archive.org
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wHhCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon''] by Samuel White Baker 1855 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024157186 ''Fifty Years in Ceylon: an Autobiography''] by the late Major Thomas Skinner, Commissioner of Public Works Ceylon. Edited by his daughter Annie Skinner 1891 Archive.org. Born 1804, he arrived in Ceylon in 1818, aged 14, where his father was stationed. Soon he was appointed as an officer in the Ceylon Regiment. He retired from Ceylon in 1867.
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinjungle02horn ''Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo''] by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist, US National Museum 1885 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023017902 ''About Ceylon and Borneo : being an account of two visits to Ceylon, one to Borneo, and how we fell out on our homeward journey''] by Walter J Clutterbuck 1891 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000355F8 British Library Digital Collection] with rotatable images. A visit mainly in 1890, and memories of a residence c 1877.
:[https://archive.org/details/poemsincaptivity00stiluoft ''Poems in Captivity''] by John Still 1919 Archive.org. Includes poems about Ceylon.
*Also see accounts in the following section.
====Planters and the Planting Industries====
*''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Coffee-Planter in Ceylon to his Cousin in London'' by Sampson Brown. ''Simmond's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, Volumes 10 and 11'' 1847. Google Books and Hathi Trust. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 Page 13], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA150 page 150], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA323 page 323], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA376 page 376], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=22 page 14], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=163 page 155], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=406 page 401]. First published as a book in Colombo 1845 under a slightly different title: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YZdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Planter to his Cousin in London''] Google Books. (Print quality is poorer in the latter version).
