KANGAROOING in Tasman's Peninsula is essentially a pe- 

 destrian sport. I am aware that in an open country, and 

 especially in New South Wales, where the chase is followed 

 on horseback, my assertion may seem like rank heresy. 



I have pursued the sport both mounted and on foot, and if 

 a horse enables you occasionally, on comparatively unencum- 

 bered ground, to see something more of the run, you must 

 still have pedestrians to hunt the dogs. After all, decide 

 this point as you will, we esteem it the poorest variety of the 

 chase. Some excitement must necessarily attend it, but too 

 much is left to the imagination, and too little of either the 

 game or the dogs is given to the eye. 



It is rarely, except when on horseback, that one has the 

 good fortune to be in at the death, or to see the kangaroo 

 pulled down. 



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