GAME-SHOOTING. 17 



In many parts of Morocco rabbits abound ; and hares are in 

 places plentiful. Woodcocks are sometimes tolerably abundant ; 

 Quails, of course, are in swarms during migration ; and there 

 are a great number of Little Bustard. 



Shooting in Andalucia is far more satisfactory and pleasant 

 sport than on the African side. In the first place, accommodation 

 can always be had in a house of some sort, which in warm 

 weather, however, usually swarms with fleas ; but by taking your 

 own blankets and a camping-palliasse, which can be refilled at 

 each resting-place with chopped straw, one can generally, by the 

 aid of a liberal use of either flea-powder * or albo-carbon 

 (naphthalin), manage to cheat the vermin of their nocturnal 

 banquet. It is almost absolutely necessary to take this powder 

 with one, as sleep in some of the dens where I have passed the 

 night would have been impossible without using it. Another 

 most useful item is an india-rubber flexible bath, as it is not 

 always that a " lebrillo " or large earthenware pan big enough to 

 wash in can be obtained. 



In addition to the shelter to be got in Andalucia there are 

 roads ; and bad as some may be, they do afford means of 

 communication ; and there are bridges, though not always 

 placed in the right situation; for in places you see a bridge 

 built across a gully without any road on either side of it, and 

 others where the stream has quitted its old course for a new 

 one single instances out of the many thousand strange and 

 wondrous cosas de Espana. 



The large game is more varied and plentiful in Andalucia 

 than in Morocco. In most of the wooded valleys of the sierras, 

 near Gibraltar, there were a good many roe-deer (corzo) and a 

 few wild pigs ; in some of the high sierras near Ronda, Ubrique, 

 and in the Sierra Nevada the Spanish Ibex is sparingly found*; 



* This vegetable powder .is made from a species of Feverfew (Pyrethrum 

 roseum), and is quite innocuous except to insects ; many other plants of the 

 Chrysanthemum group are equally offensive to parasitic insects, 



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