. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . able difficultydragged the ponderous carcass of the old bull out of the water,we found that he had been cruelly lacerated by the hounds. Itappeared to me that they had endeavored to hamstring hind legs, haunches, and belly were dreadfully torn ; he hadiost half his tail, and was otherwise mutilated. Poor old bull!I could not help commiseratins: his fate. It is melancholy toreflect that, in accordance with the laws of nature, such scenes ofpain must ever be occurring; one species, whether inhabitingeartht air, or ocean, being produced to become the pr
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . able difficultydragged the ponderous carcass of the old bull out of the water,we found that he had been cruelly lacerated by the hounds. Itappeared to me that they had endeavored to hamstring hind legs, haunches, and belly were dreadfully torn ; he hadiost half his tail, and was otherwise mutilated. Poor old bull!I could not help commiseratins: his fate. It is melancholy toreflect that, in accordance with the laws of nature, such scenes ofpain must ever be occurring; one species, whether inhabitingeartht air, or ocean, being produced to become the prey of night I watched the water, with fairish moonlight, and shot alarge spotted hyaena. I continued here hunting hartebeests until the 21st, when Iinspanned at an early hour, and trekked due east until sundown,when I halted near a small fountain of fine water, having per-formed a march of about twenty-five miles. Our road lay througha wi*J, uninhabited country, producing sweet grass in abundance, 19^ HUNTING A WILD DOG. fcut destitute of water. On the morning of tne 22d, , I road southwest, with after riders, and found theg^me abundant, but wild and shy, having been recently huntedby Boers. The wild dogs, or wilde honden,* as they are termed byDutch Boers, are still abundant in the precmcts of the Capecolony, and are met with in great numbers throughout theinterior. These animals invariably hunt together in largeorganized packs, varying in number from ten to sixty, and by,their extraordinary powers of endurance, and mode of mutuaJassistance, they are enabled to run into the swiftest, or overcomethe largest and most powerful antelope. I have never heard oftheir attacking the buffalo, and I believe that the animal pursuedin the present instance is the largest to which they give pace is a long, never-tiring gallop, and m the chase theyrelieve one another, the leading hounds falling to the rear wheniatigued, when others, who ha
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