Hunting at High Altitudes 



incident are likely to be monotonous. I have 

 already written an article on deer hunting, for the 

 Boone and Crockett series, yet I trust that this new 

 setting will excuse another. 



Writers have sadly neglected the possibilities of 

 Cuba from the sportsman's view-point. Few 

 Americans have hunted there, and I have heard 

 many sportsmen express surprise to learn that good 

 deer hunting was to be had in this charming coun- 

 try of romantic history. 



In Cuba, as in the United States, deer hold their 

 own better than other large game, and although 

 the warfare against them has been constant, they 

 are still found throughout the island. 



In 1906, it was not unusual for a hunter to- leave 

 Havana in an automobile on a deer hunt in the 

 morning, and the same night return to the city with 

 a deer. In fact many deer have recently been 

 killed within six or eight miles of Havana. Good 

 hunting has always been had along the southern 

 coast, and in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, San- 

 tiago and Puerto Principe, and in the neighbor- 

 hood of Guantanamo I found deer abundant. Com- 

 paratively a few years ago large numbers of hides 

 were annually exported from Bayamo. In the Isla 

 de Pinos, Isla de Furiguana and many other small 

 islands that at low tide are almost connected with 



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