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way from what she did when on the animal's track. She 

 knew perfectly well I should follow up in the direction 

 the deer had gone, and evidently learned from constant 

 work that it saved herself a great deal of trouble, this 

 letting me know where she was, instead of returning 

 on her own track to the spot I had been left in, and 

 finding me gone, having then to foUow me up, perhaps 

 a good many miles. In June once, when walking over 

 an island, a hind springing from some thick cover, 

 I shot her dead with my rifle, and regretted it im- 

 mediately afterwards on finding she had a fawn some- 

 where near. One of my dogs very soon found it, and 

 I took the beautiful little thing on board. It must 

 have been about a week old. On showing it to my 

 spaniel, the dog went into the most extravagant delight, 

 licking and whining over it ; and if the other dog came 

 near she growled and was quite ready to fly at her. 

 I firmly believe if she had been in a state to act as 

 wet-nurse, that she would have endeavoured to save 

 the fawn from a premature death. 



Frequently I took several natives — anything between 

 twenty and half a dozen, and as many of their half- 

 wild mongrel brutes of dogs. A more motley lot could 

 hardly be imagined. Placing myself in some clearing, 

 if possible on a ridge, the Japanese with their animals 



