SKETCHES 
OF 
SPORT IN HUNGARY. 
AUTUMN 1880. 
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I wap long wished to make myself acquainted with some of 
the interesting sporting districts of Hungary, and on my last 
autumn trip I had both leisure and opportunity to do so. I 
also managed to find a small party of keen sportsmen, who 
were ready and willing to join my short but interesting 
excursion. 
We arranged to visit two different parts of the country, 
one of which, in consequence of a kind invitation from Counts 
Rudolf and Otto Chotek, was to be the splendid hunting- 
grounds of Slavonia and Dalmatia, the other the fine but less 
known forests of the Marmaros belonging to the State. 
On the morning of the 1st of November, my brother-in- 
law Duke Leopold of Bavaria, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 
Count Bombelles, and I left the station of Gédéllé, and about 
noon reached the wharf of the Danube Steam Navigation 
Company at Buda-Pest. On the deck of the steamer ‘ Marie 
Valerie, which we had chartered for the short time to be 
