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deer and fallow deer are shot : that of Torre Bella, near Azambuja, 



belonoring- to Snr. D. Caetano de Bragan^a, and that 



of Azinhal, near Evora, belono-inor to Snr. Francisco „ , 



* ^ Parks. 



Barahona. Both these parks have herds of deer, which 



have sprung from some presented by His Majesty D. Carlos. Red 



and fallow deer are still found and shot by the same system of driving 



on the unenclosed lands at Pancas, Serra de Ficalho, Serra de Penha 



Garcia, and Monfortinho. 



Wild boar are still found on several serras of the country. With 



H.M. the King I have shot them at Outeiroes, some leagues 



from Alvito, in S. Suzana, in Palma, and in the 



Wild Boar. 

 neighbourhood of Monforte. Drivers accompanied 



by small packs of hounds drive the game towards the passes, near 



which the sportsmen wait. In the time of old Mira, a sportsman 



of great fame throughout Alemtejo (who so carried his passion for 



hunting to the very extreme of his life, that even when old and 



paralysed he got up and directed a hunt in honour of H.M.D. 



Luiz I., in which we took part, and to which he had to be driven 



lying down in his Alemtejano cart), two packs of hounds, one 



belonging to the Morgado of Alcacovas and the other to 



Snrs. Cabraes, were perfect, and it was a pleasure to see how the 



dogs obeyed the whippers-in, who, mounted on their small horses, 



flourished the long whips with which they kept in order the thirty 



or forty good dogs composing each pack. At the death of these 



sportsmen, the packs disappeared, and at present wild boar are chased 



with but four or five hounds, that, by their continual barking, start the 



boar and then pursue him. Snr. Jacintho Paes Falcao, a rich pro- 



