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the hounds brought in from San Roque, kennels being built outside Gibraltar. Since 

 then the Calpe hounds have existed, with varying fortunes, but with an inherent vitality 

 which has brought them safely through many difficulties and dangers. The country is 

 very hilly as a rule, and is composed of cultivated and grass land, with thick gorse and 

 cover, woodland in part, and also crags and rocky hills. The regular hunting begins in 

 the middle of November, and the season lasts until about the end of March. A very 

 long list of masters exists since the origin of the hunt, amongst which are many well- 

 known sporting names ; the whips have always been amateurs, officers of the garrison. 



THE CALPE HOUNDS 



The whole of the expenses of the pack were defrayed by subscriptions until 1895, when 

 the then master, Mr. P. Larios, took the hounds over, and offered to hunt the country 

 under a limited fixed subscription, since which time he has continued to carry the horn. 

 The country is hunted three days a week, and there are about forty-five couple of hounds 

 in the kennels, most of which come from the Duke of Buccleuch's, the Brocklesby, and 

 the Southwold kennels, while some are bred in Spain. Foxes are plentiful and very 

 strong and most difficult to run into in the open, on account of the difficulties of the 

 ground, the thick gorses, and many badger-earths, but runs of from seven to twelve 



