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run, and hounds well deserved blood. The few of 

 us who went through the last and by far the most 

 enjoyable of this evening's runs, including the acting 

 Master and his wife, had a long ride home in the 

 dark, and did not reach Vryburg till after 8 p.m. 



These are only samples of the kind of sport pro- 

 vided by the Bechuanaland Foxhounds. I was not 

 fortunate enough to see the whole pack out and in 

 their best form; but I saw enough to warrant the 

 conclusion that, at their best, these hounds must 

 have been very formidable pursuers of buck or 

 jackal. Some time before, hunting three days a 

 week at Mafeking, these hounds scored five kills 

 in one week. Sir Frederick Carrington then took 

 them to Vryburg for three days' hunting, where 

 they also scored five kills. Of these latter, one run 

 was with a duyker, and lasted one hour; one with 

 a jackal, fifty-six minutes without a check; one 

 with a steinbok, thirty-five minutes; one with a 

 jackal, one hour and thirty minutes; and another 

 in which a jackal was run into in twenty minutes. 

 These records are good enough for any hounds and 

 any country ; and, bearing in mind the difficulties 

 of temperature, terrain, and scenting, are, in my 

 opinion, remarkable evidences of the possibilities of 

 sport (under good management) with foxhounds in 

 a hot climate. The history of fox-hunting in South 

 Africa is for the last twenty-two years inseparably 



