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along ; once at Tegernsee he had seen a hundred and 

 seventy-five chamois together ; and the average number 

 of warrantable stags shot in each district every season 

 was twenty-four. 



The quantity in other parts must have been immense. 

 A friend of mine, who was lately on a visit to Prince 

 Lamberg in Styria, told me what the Prince himself 

 related to him : that since the revolution not less than 

 ten thousand head of game have, according to his com- 

 putation, been stolen from his domain, consisting of red- 

 deer, chamois, and roe-deer. To the English reader 

 this seems hardly credible, but from the number known 

 to have been there formerly, and what are now left, it is 

 certainly not an over-estimate.* 



These are exciting stories for the sportsman ; they stir 

 up all his latent longings, and something very like envy 

 creeps into his heart as he listens to them. I have 

 always thought how natural it is that the Indian should 

 furnish his heaven with the rarest hunting-grounds. 



The forester came out to meet us as we approached 

 the house : he had heard my shot, and was curious to 

 know the result. That evening we had a consultation 

 about the proceedings of the morrow, and it was agreed 

 I should try my luck on the Krammets Berg, as the 

 surest place of meeting chamois. 



" Yonder," said he, pointing toward the mountains in 

 front of the house, — " yonder, below the ridge, are broad 

 bare places, where in a morning you are almost sure of 

 seeing something. Should nothing be there," he con- 



* To give a proof that it is not so, I may state that the keepers 

 found every year eight hundred pair of antlers, which the stags had shed. 

 As the number not found is always considerable, some notion may be 

 formed, from this circumstance alone, of the quantity of red-deer which 

 must have been there. 



