2 WOLF-HUNTING. 



of it might certainly be obtained at a far less cost of time, trouble, 

 and expense among the rough game of Lower Brittany. 



Before entering, however, into details of the chasse, let me 

 endeavour to present the reader with a sketch of Carhaix and the 

 surrounding district, not a cover of which, within a certain dis- 

 tance of the town, but holds a fox, a wolf, or a tusky boar ; and 

 in some of them, such as those of Laz, Kcenig, and Kilvern, each 

 and all of those beasts, besides deer and smaller game, may 

 always be found. And yet this country, so near home, is far less 

 known by Englishmen than the jungles of Oudh or the wilds of 

 Namaqua Land. 



Within two leagues of the trackless forests which cover the 

 Black Mountains of Brittany, and at a point where the confines 

 of the three departments of Morbihan, C6tes-du-Nord, and Finis- 

 terre are defined, stands the old Celtic city of Carhaix. A noble 

 cathedral of Gothic architecture, the work of English hands in the 

 sixteeth century, crowns the summit of the hill ; two hospices, 

 the one devoted to the spiritual, the other to the material wants 

 of the public, especially those of invalid soldiers, occupy a con- 

 spicuous position with their lofty and whitewashed walls ; and, 

 like other Breton towns, it has its Hotel de Ville, Gendarmerie, 

 and a respectable French hotel. A handsome bronze statue, the 

 chef (Tcetivre of Marochetti, is erected in the Champ de Bataille, 

 in honour of La Tour d'Auvergne, the premier grenadier of 

 France, and a native of Carhaix, who died gallantly on the battle- 

 field df Oberhausen in the year 1800. But the traveller must go 

 farther back than the present century to appreciate the merits of 

 Carhaix. Surrounded by woods, and, till lately, approached 

 only by a precipitous and rugged route, it stands on a high and 

 bold eminence overlooking the country far and wide, and by its 

 isolation seems to have bidden a successful defiance to the 

 inroads of commerce and civilisation. It is essentially a town 

 of past ages : just what it might have been, and probably was, 



