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VISITS TO MADAGASCAR. 
CHAP. XII. 
Wild cattle. 3063 
Wild fowl ....... 2235 
Wild boars.63 
Large amphibious turtle .... 326 
Large baskets of fish.5 
Eels.183 
Burrowing tenrecs.11 
Tenrecs that do not burrow .... 7 
Lemurs or monkeys ..... 43 
Crocodiles . 13 
We were only ten days hunting the wild oxen, and, when the 
flesh (of the oxen) was finished, we hunted the wild boars two 
days only. The wild fowl we took all in one day. We did 
not shoot the fowls, but obtained them by catching them, and 
striking them only. The wild cattle and the wild boars were 
killed by the soldiers, and the birds were caught by them. 
The crocodiles and the others, viz. the fish, the turtles, the 
monkeys, and the hedgehogs, were caught by the people, 
farmers, or villagers.” Such is the account, written from 
the field, which one of the huntsmen gives as the result of 
thirteen days’ sport. 
The immense number of wild cattle slaughtered in ten 
days, and of wild hoars killed in two days, together with the 
number of birds taken in a single day, show that the game 
must have been exceedingly abundant. There does not 
appear to have been any hunting expeditions for a number of 
years past. The chief pursuits of the kind appear to have 
been for the destruction of the wild hogs. The only sport in 
which the court takes part at the present time, is that of bull¬ 
fights at the capital. 
But, leaving the natives to follow the large hog, which had 
just approached the outskirts of their village, we continued 
our way, the sun shining brightly as we mounted the high 
ground to the east of the village. After crossing a river, we 
