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ioined by the others, and all hunt together, as though on the 

 track of a stag or boar. 



As soon as the animal is taken, he rolls himself up like a 

 ball, turning the prickles with which he is covered towards 

 the teeth of the pack. One of the hunters takes him up with 

 the lappel of his burnous, and puts him in his hood and then 

 they seek another trail, and the hunt continues in the same 

 way until morning. 



SMALL GAME. 



At the commencement of the French jurisdiction in Algeria, 

 game of all kinds was so abundant, that a partridge was 

 worth two sous, two hares a franc, and so on. The worst 

 sportsman always returning with his game-bag full, and in 

 many places the hunting grounds were only a cannon shot 

 from our rampart when in garrison, or from the trenches, 

 when in camp. 



I remember one day, in September, 1842, 1 killed between 

 breakfast and dinner, in the neighborhood of Guelma, forty- 

 five partridges and seven hares with a dragoon's carbine. I 

 will add that I am not a first-rate marksman, and I know 

 some gentlemen who, with a Lefaucher gun, would have killed 

 twice the number. 



From continual hunting, game has become scarce around 

 the villages and camps, and especially in the neighborhood 

 of the towns. However, as there still exist in the provinces, 

 and especially in that of Constantine, many places, distant 

 from the centre of the population, where game of all kinds 



