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do. His companion follows exactly in his footsteps, 

 holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so 

 that the muzzle of each projects under the arm of the 

 first. Both have a fillet of white skin round their 

 foreheads, and the foremost a strip of the same round 

 each wrist. They gradually approach the herd, raise 

 their legs very slowly, and put them down again sud- 

 denly, in the manner of deer. 



If any of the herd see them, they stop, and the head 

 is made to play its part by copying their movements. 

 By these means the hunters get into the very centre 

 of the herd without exciting suspicion ; the hindmost 

 man then pushes forward his comrade's gun, and both 

 fire nearly at the same instant. The deer scamper off, 

 the hunters trot after them ; the poor animals soon halt 

 to see what alarmed them ; their enemies have reloaded 

 their guns as they proceeded, and give them a second 

 discharge. The consternation of the deer increases, 

 they run about in the utmost confusion, and the greater 

 number are frequently thus destroyed. 



I have already spoken of dogs which attach them- 

 selves to communities, and now I have a similar 

 instance of a deer to offer, in combination, however, 

 with a dog, who attached himself to the 42 d High- 

 landers, having been presented to that regiment by a 

 friend of one of the officers. The dog had belonged 

 to a captain in the navy, who dined at the mess while 

 the regiment was stationed in Malta, and so attached 

 himself to that community that nothing would induce 

 him to leave it ; so his master was forced to leave his 

 favourite Newfoundland behind him, who from that 

 moment would not follow any one who did not wear 

 the uniform of his friends. The soldiers subscribed, 



