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The Grand Duke remained at one corner next the canal, 
and Hoyos and I stood along the side of the field which came 
up to the embankment, the rest of the gentlemen stationing 
themselves round its other borders ; but we were unfortunately 
short of guns, and the gaps between the sportsmen were too 
wide. Buffaloes and camels were grazing close to our posts, 
and the whole affair certainly by no means corresponded with 
the Huropean idea of a wolf-hunt. 
Hardly had the swarthy beaters pushed in among the canes 
with a most infernal yelling, when my neighbour fired into 
the field, and a very large wolf immediately broke between us 
and scoured across the canal with long bounds. I ran up the 
embankment and fired both barrels at the beast, although it 
was rather too far off ; but it went on straight over the fields, 
dragging its hind leg. 
The beaters soon appeared, the brown fellaheen and the 
numerous negroes looking very strange as they came along 
through the yellow canes in their scanty costume, each of 
them gnawing a broken-off stalk. 
We now had the field driven again, and this time my left- 
hand neighbour was the first to fire, and killed a fairly large 
wolf with a single shot. Immediately afterwards one of the 
guns on the left flank rolled over a wolf, which picked itself 
up and, though bleeding freely, broke through the canes near 
the next sportsman, who gave it another shot as it bolted 
away. 
A few minutes later the gun on my right killed a fair-sized 
wolf with one shot, and the next instant another wolf jumped 
out between us and went off over the canal. It was a long 
shot for both of us, and though evidently hard hit, the beast 
dragged itself away through the grazing buffaloes to some 
thick fields of young corn. 
The beaters now came out again, and we made them drive 
the field a third time. I soon heard something coming up in 
