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SUCCESSFUL SPORT. 
weary botanist reposed awbile, after gaining tlie 
summit of the island. Here, among stubborn, 
thorny Smilax, and dwarf oak, forming a short, 
dense scrub, and great loose stones, are the pecu- 
liar fastnesses of the deer. Without dogs, you 
would imagine they were quite unapproachable. 
However, no less than nine deer fell before the 
ardour, skill, and patience of my messmates. 
Sutherland, untiring and sagacious, slew two fat 
bucks, after toiling and moiling all the livelong day, 
and gazed on their lifeless forms with a smile of 
grim satisfaction. A beetle-hunting doctor, in a 
quiet, bosky dell, was startled by loud shouts from 
the hill-side, high up among the Smilax-vines and 
oak-scrub, and, looking up, perceived Warren 
wildly flourishing a bloody knife. He was shout- 
ing in triumph that with his own hand he had 
brought down his deer and had cut its throat. Down 
a crooked, stony path Wilford, panting under the 
carcase of a fine buck, was advancing, staggering 
but elated ; while Schuckburgh came jauntily in, 
wdth a young doe slung across his shoulders, and 
