“ A TRAMP WITH REDSKINS.” 255 
its porter. Each weighed probably between 50 and 60 
pounds. In some mysterious way the woman managed 
to get both packs fitted on behind her, and carried both 
for the rest of the day ; while her emancipated husband 
joyfully bounded about among the rocks and trees, now 
on one side of the line of march, now on the other, 
rejoicing as a strong man in sport. 
It may here be explained that the idea of sport as 
consisting in the overcoming of the greatest possible 
number of difficulties in killing the quarry, is totally 
alien to the Redman’s way of thought. His desire is to 
get meat; and he never shoots at a flying bird, or 
fires at any animal until the point of his drawn arrow or 
pointed gun is within a marvellously short distance of the 
quarry. Yet, after all, the wonderful skill with which 
the Redman contrives to steal up to within almost touching 
distance of a wild animal is itself a worthy exercise of 
tke sporting instinét. 
By the time that the change of burdens had been 
effe€ted, jaguar or trumpet bird, whichever it was, had 
vanished ; but our newly self-appointed huntsman held 
himself in readiness for whatever else might turn up. 
While, in the course of his rambles, he had disappeared 
for a moment among the trees clothing the side of a hill 
by which our line of march was passing, suddenly all the 
others of my party, who had been chattering vigorously 
a minute before, became silent as dead men and as 
motionless. The eyes of all were glued to one point in 
the wood, where nothing particular was to be seen by my 
eyes, whence nothing unusual was to be heard by my 
ears. At last the silence was broken by the crack of a 
gun, immediately followed by the thud of a heavy body 
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