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woodlands, on one occasion passing my " hunts- 

 man " within a couple of yards. Of course, he 

 was unarmed on that occasion. Several expe- 

 ditions to the Biskup valleys and other places 

 were quite fruitless, simply because the ground 

 was never quiet. The last time I went there the 

 place, even at this late season, was a regular 

 Noah's Ark, the whole hill being covered by 

 Christian peasants from the Krusevljan district, 

 with their filthy pigs, in addition to sheep, cattle, 

 goats, and dogs innumerable. 



If I inflict the account of one more failure 

 on the reader, it is because the expedition in 

 question had some points of interest apart from 

 sport. 



I was very anxious to complete the Herzego- 

 vinian quintet of larger game, bear, boar, roe, 

 chamois, and wolf, before going into winter 

 quarters. A chance at the last-named animal 

 is always more or less of a fluke, as the 

 foregoing pages amply prove ; but, careful pre- 

 cautions being taken, the killing of a boar can 

 be reduced to a certainty, and my next attempt 

 was to secure one. 



The boar is the rarest of the large game of 

 this province, although common enough in Bosnia. 

 It is only found in this district, and here, unfor- 

 tunately, a large number had been killed by the 

 peasantry in the deep snow a couple of years 



