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had received only a few days previously from a musket- 

 ball. 



Having placed ourselves, each distant from his neigh- 

 bour about thirty paces, the Albanians commenced beat- 

 ing the wood towards us. Scarcely had they done 

 so, when a shot was heard from one of our party, with 

 a loud and exulting exclamation of *'By Jasus, I've 

 hit the ugly haste !" Indeed he had hit him ; in a few 

 minutes he dropped dead ; and a larger or more grizzly 

 boar I never beheld. The slaughter proceeded. In less 

 than an hour, three more were slain, and, returning to 

 the yacht, we exulted over our fallen monsters, two 

 huge boars, and two smaller ones, one of which latter 

 was the prettiest and best- shaped little pig I ever 

 beheld. 



Never shall I forget the delight of the Nimrod who had 

 slain this latter. He had never known before what it was 

 to kill a large animal, and his exultation at slaughtering 

 a lovely little pig knew no bounds. It may seem cruel 

 and cold-blooded ; persons who sit quietly at home, and 

 know not the delights of the chase, may say, and with 

 some truth too, that the wanton destruction of animal 

 life is no better than unwarrantable cruelty ; but I defy 

 the man who has no sporting propensities to imagine 

 the pleasure which one experiences at first seeing drop 

 to his gun a huge animal like a wild boar. 



Returning on board, we cast a net into the sea, and 

 took between fifty and sixty very fine fish, after which 

 the slayer of one of the wild animals exultingly flayed 

 and cut up the huge carcase in the light of a bright 

 moon, which, unobscured by a shadow of a mist, threw 



