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SHOOTING IN ALGERIA. 



the landing-place plenty of timber will be found in 

 such hollows or valleys as are sheltered from the 

 sea breeze, these covers increasing in size as the 

 visitors progress inland. 



If setters or pointers are taken, small game, such 

 as red-legged partridge, hares, and, at the proper 

 season of the year, an abundance of quail, will be 

 found immediately after stepping upon shore. In 

 the brush woodcock arc frequently numerous, also 

 wild fowl in the low-lying damp grounds. Wild 

 boar also are plentiful, where there is sufficient bush 

 and timber to afford them suitable shelter. 



Lions were common here (although I did not see 

 any), and probably are so now. My information on 

 this point was doubtless correct, as it was obtained 

 from the natives. However, the spoor of leopards 

 I frequently saw, and this was not surprising, for 

 their favourite prey, apes, fairly swarmed. 



The people were very civil and obliging, and, like 

 the Mussulman population of Barbary, keen sports- 

 men, thus no difficulty was experienced in obtaining 

 guides, the recompense for their services being almost 

 nominal. A town called Masarck is a day's journey 

 by horse, almost due west, but inland. 



The latitude is about 37 N., longitude 7 E., if I 

 remember rightly, but a navigator's chart of the coast 

 would give such details correctly. 



If the party consist of four, the craft they charter 

 should be about twenty tons. I should think that 

 a month's trip might be had at an expense of very 

 little over 12/. per head — that is, of course, with 

 economical management. 



A permit to land, also to take ashore arms and 

 ammunition, must be procured from the French 

 Consul at Valetta before sailing. 



As oil and garlic are large items in the dietai^ of 

 the crew, our countrymen would do well not to 

 turn up their noses, and do an ominous growl, when 



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