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It was soon followed by another, which bounded like a hare 
through the long grass in front of the beaters, and was 
knocked over with one ball by the Grand Duke. It proved 
to be a middling-sized sow, and having dragged it out of the 
watercourse we sent it off to the camp on a donkey. On 
continuing the beat several wild boar escaped us either by 
breaking back through the beaters among the thick under- 
growth or by bolting off too far ahead. One, too, was missed 
by the Grand Duke in the middle of the stream. 
Before long the dogs again gave tongue, and a very large 
boar, with long gleaming white tusks, came climbing up the 
slope between me and the beaters with a great deal of noise 
and bustle. He tried to get away to the steppe, but a lucky 
shot behind the shoulder brought him down, and highly 
delighted I despatched my splendid spoil to the camp. 
We now began shooting again at the small game, here very 
abundant, and killed Chukar and Hey’s Partridges, Purple 
and Night-Herons, as well as Quails and Snipe. We also 
fired some long ineffectual shots at Eagles; but as the mid- 
* day heat began to be very trying, we resolved to leave off 
shooting for awhile. 
On going down to the stream I found in the muddy places 
tracks of Hyeenas, Wolves, Lynxes, and smaller Cats. Accord- 
ing to the Bedouins, the canine animals only come at night 
from the mountains to drink, but the feline species live in the 
thickets and hollow trees, and can never be driven out of 
their hiding-places even by dogs. The traces of Porcupines 
were also frequently met with, and the dogs once hunted up 
to an earth outside of which we found the fresh tracks and 
some quills of this singular creature. We therefore resolved 
to dig him out of his dwelling, and sent my jiger back to the 
camp on a fast horse with instructions to bring the dachs- 
hunds and some shovels. 
Meanwhile we lay down under a tree, drinking lemonade, 
