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diem. Safely established under the guardianship of 

 the hostess, you can obtain all desirable information, 

 and a guide if such you deem necessary. An hour's 

 ride from the town, going inland, will bring you 

 upon splendid ground, either scrubby brushwood, 

 covered slopes, or open grass and palmetto plains. 

 The game principally found is red-legged partridge, 

 "which, contrary to our home experience of the 

 same gentleman, here lays well to a dog. Hares are 

 also plentiful, snipe, plover, and the lesser bustard 

 not uncommon. Just beyond Cape Spartel there is 

 a small river on which I have killed a great number 

 of duck, and a mile or two farther on an immense 

 swamp, known by the name of " the Lagoona," 

 where snipe and wild-fowl may be killed in abund- 

 ance, as well as woodcock and wild-boar. As tlie 

 gates of Tangier are always locked at sunset, you 

 have to hurry home at an inconveniently early hour, 

 but if you do not object to roughing it, and prefer a 

 long day and large bag to the luxury of a well-aired 

 bed and comfortable apartment, you can easily 

 arrange so as to sleep at one of the numerous Arab 

 villages or douars. Of course, to do this, you will 

 require an interpreter, who should also perform both 

 functions of cook and major-domo. But to one in- 



