Hunting in Many Lands 



and enough remnants of grass to amuse the 

 animals. This region of pine barrens occurs 

 at quite an elevation, and the nights were 

 cold. The granite core of the country crops 

 out all along in low broken hills, the interven- 

 ing mesas consisting of granite sand and 

 gravel, and bearing beside the pines a good 

 deal of brush. Thickets of manzanita twisted 

 their blood-colored trunks over the ground, 

 and the tawny stems of the red-shank covered 

 the country for miles. The red-shank is a love- 

 ly shrub, growing about six or eight feet high, 

 with broom-like foliage of a yellowish green, 

 possessing great fragrance. If you simply 

 smell the uncrushed shoots, they give a faint 

 perfume, somewhat suggestive of violets ; and 

 if you crush the leaves you get a more pun- 

 gent odor, sweet and a little smoky. Also, 

 the gnarled roots of the red-shank make an 

 excellent cooking fire, if you can wait a few 

 hours to have them burn to coals. All things 

 considered, the pine barren country is very 

 attractive, and if there were grass, water and 

 game, it would be a fine place for a hunter. 

 From our camp at Bajio Largo, J. B. and I 

 went hunting for deer, which were said to be 

 plentiful. We hunted from early morning till 



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