CHAPTER VI 



A PECCARY HUNT ON THE NUECES 



T N the United States the peccary is only 

 found in the southernmost corner of Texas. 

 In April, 1892, I made a flying visit to the 

 ranch country of this region, starting from the 

 town of Uvalde with a Texan friend, Mr. 

 John Moore. My trip being very hurried, 

 I had but a couple of days to devote to hunt- 

 ing. 



Our first halting-place was at a ranch on 

 the Frio; a low, wooden building, of many 

 rooms, with open galleries between them, and 

 verandas round about. The country was in 

 some respects like, in others strangely unlike, 

 the northern plains with which I was so well 

 acquainted. It was for the most part cov- 

 ered with a scattered growth of tough, stunted 

 mesquite trees, not dense enough to be called 

 a forest, and yet sufficiently close to cut off 

 the view. It was very dry, even as compared 

 with the northern plains. The bed of the 



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