SKETCHES 



OF 



SPORT IN HUNGARY. 



AUTUMN 1880. 



I HAD long wished to make myself acquainted with some of 

 the interesting sporting districts of Hungary, and on my last 

 autumn trip I had both leisure and opportunity to do so. I 

 also managed to find a small party of keen sportsmen, who 

 were ready and willing to join my short but interesting 

 excursion. 



We arranged to visit two different parts of the country, 

 one of which, in consequence of a kind invitation from Counts 

 Eudolf and Otto Chotek, was to be the splendid hunting- 

 grounds of Slavoni'a and Dalmatia, the other the fine but less 

 known forests of the Marmaros belonging to the State. 



On the morning of the 1st of November, my brother-in- 

 law Duke Leopold of Bavaria, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 

 Count Bombelles, and I left the station of Grodollo, and about 

 noon reached the wharf of the Danube Steam Navigation 

 Company at Buda-Pest. On the deck of the steamer i Marie 

 Valerie,' which we had chartered for the short time to be 



