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ten seconds. Both were ten-pointers, with strong black horns, 
ivory-tipped. During that afternoon I got a big boar at Maé- 
Corra; and B., who had set out at 4 A.M., twenty-three geese 
at the Cardo-Inchal. 
Far Norra, January 31, 1907.—First beat by the “ Eagles’ 
Nest” (in the biggest cork-oak we ever saw, the imperial bird 
soaring off as we rode up). Brushwood everywhere tall and 
dense, giving no view. On placing me the keeper remarked, 
“ By this little glade (canuto) deer must break, but amidst such 
jungle will need un tiro de merito!” Four stags broke, two 
were missed, but one secured—seven points on one horn, the 
other broken. So dense is the bush here that a lynx ran almost 
over the writer's post, yet had vanished from sight ere gun could 
be brought to shoulder. In the next beat, La Querencia del 
Macho (again all dense bush), B. shot two really grand companion 
stags, but again one of these had a broken horn. This animal 
while at bay so injured the spine of one of our dogs that it had 
to be killed two days later.’ A third beat added one more big 
stag, and the day’s result—four stags with only two “heads ”— 
is so curious that we give the detail :— 
Length. | Breadth. | Points. 
W. EB? 23h” | (One horn) | 7 x 2 | 
W. J. B. (No. 1) 28" | Do. | 6x2 | 
W. J. B. (No. 2) | 95" * 25" | 25" 7x6=13 | 
A.C | 26” % 24” | 204” | 6x5=11 
Amidst forest or in dense jungle (such as last described) 
where no distant view is possible, it is usually advisable to watch 
outwards—that is, with back towards the beat, relying on ears 
+ This is only the second instance in thirty or forty years of 1 wounded or ‘‘bayed” 
stag killing a dog. In the Culata del Faro, we remember, many years ago, a stag shol 
through the lungs, and which was brought to bay close behind the writer's post, tossing 
a podenco clean over its head, and so injuring it that the dog had to be destroyed at once. 
2 The initials are those of our late frien! Colonel Brymer of Ilsington, Dorset, formerly 
M.P. for that county, and who was a frequent visitor to Spain, where, alas! his death 
occurred while we write this chapter (May 1909). A unique exploit of the Colonel’s during 
his last shooting-trip may fitly be recorded. On February 5, 1909, at the Culata del 
Faginado, four big stags broke in a clump past his post on a pine-crowned ridge in - 
forest. Two he dropped right and left ; then reloading one barrel, killed » third ere the 
survivors had vanished from sight. These three stags carried thirty-four points, the best 
head taping 30} inches by 27 inches in width, and 43 inches basal oer 
