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The Grand Duke remained at one corner next the canal, 

 and Hoyos and I stood along the side of the field which came 

 up to the embankment, the rest of the gentlemen stationing 

 themselves round its other borders ; but we were unfortunately 

 short of guns, and the gaps between the sportsmen were too 

 wide. Buffaloes and camels were grazing close to our posts, 

 and the whole affair certainly by no means corresponded with 

 the European idea of a wolf-hunt. 



Hardly had the swarthy beaters pushed in among the canes 

 with a most infernal yelling, when my neighbour fired into 

 the field, and a very large wolf immediately broke between us 

 and scoured across the canal with long bounds. I ran up the 

 embankment and fired both barrels at the beast, although it 

 was rather too far off ; but it went on straight over the fields, 

 dragging its hind leg. 



The beaters soon appeared, the brown fellaheen and the 

 numerous negroes looking very strange as they came along 

 through the yellow canes in their scanty costume, each of 

 them gnawing a broken-off stalk. 



We now had the field driven again, and this time my left- 

 hand neighbour was the first to fire, and killed a fairly large 

 wolf with a single shot. Immediately afterwards one of the 

 guns on the left flank rolled over a wolf, which picked itself 

 up and, though bleeding freely, broke through the canes near 

 the next sportsman, who gave it another shot as it bolted 

 away. 



A few minutes later the gun on niy right killed a fair-sized 

 wolf with one shot, and the next instant another wolf jumped 

 out between us and went off over the canal. It was a long 

 shot for both of us, and though evidently hard hit, the beast 

 dragged itself away through the grazing buffaloes to some 

 thick fields of young corn. 



The beaters now came out again, and we made them drive 

 the field a third time. I soon heard something coming up in 



