G IN THE LAND OF THE BOKA. 



fellows are my inseparable companions, and proved 

 useful watch-dogs, I must frankly admit that they 

 were not that success in Dalmatia which they had 

 previously been in German woods and Ardennes 

 forests. They seemed to feel the disadvantage 

 they were at among the rocks and mountains, 

 and only worked really well in the vineyards and 

 marshes. To any one who may think of following 

 in our footsteps, I would recommend the taking 

 of one or two pointers or setters, or preferably one 

 •of each, as the former will suffer in the feet from 

 the sharp rocks, whilst the want of water will 

 often knock up the latter. 



***** 

 Assuming that the average reader knows no 

 more about the matter than I did before I went 

 there, I may, perhaps, be allowed to say a little 

 about Dalmatia. The only connection the name 

 formerly had in my mind was that it was the native 

 home of those quaint-looking black-and-white 

 pointers, vulgarly known as "plum-pudding dogs," 

 one of which, in my young days, invariably formed 

 part of a well-turned-out London equipage, but 

 which now seem in a fair way to become as extinct 

 as the dodo. In this case it will certainly not be 

 to Dalmatia that fanciers will be able to resort to 

 renew their stock, for I never saw a single speci- 

 men of the breed there, and can only suppose that 

 some wag named the breed on the lucus a non 

 lucendo principle. 



