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Antelope and Jungle-sheep are killed either by 

 stalking or forming a battue. 



The Mountain-deer is found in the mountainous 

 districts only, and is killed in the same way as the 

 chamois, which it very much resembles in its habits. 



Small game is very abundant throughout the 

 country, and consists of red-partridge, hares, jungle- 

 fowl, (poule de Carthage,) bustard, and quail, which 

 are to be found in great quantities. On the lakes 

 all kinds of water- fowl are to be found, from the 

 duck to the swan; besides which, woodcock and 

 snipe are very numerous in the season. The sports- 

 man may fill a cart with waterfowl ; it is only a ques- 

 tion of how much ammunition he has got with him. 



The abundance of game in this country is very 

 easily accounted for. In the first place, the inhab- 

 itants — the Arabs — shoot little or nothing, and the 

 French in Algeria do as the Arabs ; so that all kinds 

 of game, large and small, live in a state of undis- 

 turbed peace, and multiply accordingly. 



Large game, such as lions and panthers, have 

 been driven into the wildest part of the country by 

 the advance of civilisation, and the sportsman may 

 lose much time in finding out their haunts, if not 

 accompanied by those initiated. M. Jules Gdrard 

 spent upwards of six hundred nights in the forest 

 before he killed his twenty-sixth lion ; so whoever 

 would tread in his footsteps should not be dis- 

 couraged by want of success in the first instance. 



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