FRANK FORESTER S FIKLD SPORTS. 



ANTELOPE HUNTING. 



O be honest with you, gentle and dear 



reader, this, as yet, can scarcely be 



called a sjiort, and it is even doulitful 



= whether it ever will be so ; for st» 



>^jfe^WX^ '^^i^^^' ^^ wary, and so ineffably fleet 



^•IjSI^^'5^'^ ot" foot is this beautiful little creature, 



5;; that the speed of hounds and h(u-ses, 



^ the skill, the science, and the arms of 



mail, are alike almost vain against it. 



Hitherto it has been pursued by none but the wild Indian 

 warrior, and the scarcely less wild hunter or trapper of the 

 prairies. Few are the civilized men who have chased it — a 

 few amateurs, who have braved the long marches and precari- 

 ous supplies, the perils and the terrors of the wilderness, with 

 the officers of the gallant little frontier garrisons, the few scien- 

 tific explorers of those far solitudes, and the yet fewer spirited 

 and well-nurtured adventurers, whom the promotion of their 

 fortunes, coupled to something perchance of a truant dispo- 

 sition, has led overland to trade in the Spanish countries, or to 

 explore the mineral regions — these are the only persons who 

 have hitherto in America pursued the Prong-horn Antelope. 



Its speed is recounted to be such that, even when taken at 

 advantage, so as to admit of being pursued by relays of horses, 

 a fresh one started as fast as the last fell weary, it has been very 

 rarely run down in the field. 



It is usually stalked by the white hunter, as the Elk or Deer ; 

 but its wary or timorous nature, its habits of feeding on the tops 



