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huntsman named Holman, who, I believe, gives every 

 satisfaction. When I saw them they were rather out of 

 health, influenza or kennel cough having been pretty 

 busy among them; but they were a good serviceable- 

 looking lot — rather uneven of course, but you must not 

 look too closely into a pack in Chile. I can assure my 

 readers that 1 had many a good run with them subse- 

 quently. The sport is rather of a ''hide and seek^' 

 quality, the covert being a short thick scrub mixed up 

 with boulders and masses of rock, which makes it difficult 

 to bolt a fox, and necessitates untiring energy on the 

 part of the huntsman. The animals themselves are some- 

 what peculiar, some being smaller than a good English 

 dog fox, and others attaining to an enormous size. I 

 was assured by Mr. G. that the pack once killed a fox 

 which was over five feet in length, but perhaps this may 

 be a species of jackal. I see in the Zoological Gardens 

 they have two of these large Chile foxes, and they 

 are labelled " Chile jackal.^^ 



At the kennels there is a nice little tavern kept by 

 the huntsman, and there I demolished many a juicy 

 lomo steak and bottle of Bass. The racecourse is 

 near here, in the shape of an oval, about a mile and a 

 half round (of the Chile horses and races more hereafter), 

 and a few miles further there are some deep lagunas 

 or lakes, which contain great numbers of pejen-eyes, a 

 small fish resembling a Gin. dace more than anything I 

 can recollect, and most delicious eating. Close by here 

 is a hacienda, or farm, called the Penuelas, and it used to 

 be a favourite amusement of mine to go out fishing to 

 those lakes, taking a gun with me on the odd chance of 

 a partridge. 



Sport in Chile is bad, decidedly bad. Guanacos can 



