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beasts off to the camp on a donkey, where they were taken to 
the tent of our stuffer. 
We then rode back to the pretty castle of Tantur by 
yesterday’s road, and on reaching it proceeded to beat one 
of the bare stony hills of its neighbourhood in a systematic 
way, impressing as many men as possible. Count Caboga’s 
servants, our grooms from the camp, the shepherds and the 
peasants who were walking along the road, all were taken 
along with us. Some of the gentlemen lined the southern 
side of the valley, while Hoyos, the jaigers, and I posted the 
beaters, and began the drive at a given signal. We were 
also assisted by several Turkish gendarmes, who showed con- 
siderable talent for such diversions. 
A few partridges, a poor quail, and a jackal were put up, 
but they unfortunately did not take the right line, and the 
beat was nearly at an end when several partridges flew over 
the guns, one of which was killed; a hare also came within 
range, and was shot by Chorinsky. It was a true grey 
Syrian Hare—thinner, smaller, and much darker than our 
ordinary species, but altogether with a much greater resem- 
blance to it than to the African Desert Hare. 
After this not very brilliantly successful drive we passed 
the hyzena-ambush, and leaving Tantur on the left, went to 
the Mar-Elyas monastery, from which there was a splendid 
view of Jerusalem. It was our last look at the Holy City 
and its environs, for we were now to go steadily eastwards, 
and afterwards to turn to the north. 
There we decided to make a long continuous beat, on the 
principle of the Bohemian partridge-drives, from the monas- 
tery to the camp. The distance was great and the ground 
very broken, for there were a number of hills, all separated 
by deep valleys with steeply sloping sides. The beaters were 
now spread out, and the gentlemen and the jigers distributed 
among them so as to cover a broader line of country. 
