486 The Hunting Grounds 



The Mountain-deer is found in the mountainous 

 districts only, and is killed in the same way as the 

 chamois, which' it very much resembles in its habits. 



Small game is very abundant throughout the 

 country, and consists of red-partridge, hares, jungle- 

 fowl (poule de Carthage), bustard and quail, which 

 are to be found in great quantities. On the lakes all 

 kinds of waterfowl are to be found, from the duck to 

 the swan ; besides which, woodcock and snipe are 

 very numerous in the season. The sportsman may 

 fill a cart with waterfowl ; it is only a question of 

 how much ammunition he has got with him. 



The abundance of game in this country is very 

 easily accounted for. In the first place the inhabit- 

 ants, the Arabs, shoot little or nothing, and the 

 French in Algeria do as the Arabs ; so that all kinds 

 of game, large and small, live in ..a state of undis- 

 turbed peace, and multiply accordingly. 



Large game, such as lions and panthers, have been 

 driven into the wildest part of the country by the 

 advance of civilisation, and the sportsman may lose 

 much time in finding out their haunts, if not accom- 

 panied by those initiated. M. Jules Gerard spent 

 upwards of six hundred nights in the forest before 

 he killed his twenty- sixth lion ; so whoever would 

 tread in his footsteps should not be discouraged by 

 want of success in the first instance. 



