My Methods of Hunting 27 



in places by no means agreeable, and in positions 

 often more than uncomfortable, in order to assure 

 success. Do not think that each time my patience 

 was rewarded ! No. How many nights have I not 

 passed fruitlessly, finding the hours interminable ? 

 During forty night-watches, I have fired each year 

 perhaps eight shots. But truly they have well paid 

 me for my difficulties. 



The reader is now fairly well acquainted with my 

 weapons and the value of my assistants, as well as 

 with my perseverance : it is time to make known to 

 him also our quarry. 



