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resound to that degree, that the music of a pack oi 
harriers is not to be compared to it. At length the 
hunters, with their hatchets, cut a passage behind 
the thicket, and having perceived the drove, fire in 
amongst them. Being thus attacked at all points, and 
a breach made in their line of defence, they have no 
other resource left than to fight their way through the 
hunters and dogs, and run for it, with the latter yelp¬ 
ing at their heels. A great many are sometimes 
killed in this way, but it is rather for the sport, and 
for the sake of destroying them, on account of the 
injury they sustain by them, than for the value of 
their carcases ; for they will scarcely ever touch them 
as food. 
Some of these expeditions occupy many days, and 
even two or three weeks; and they go out upon them 
a long way from home. On these occasions they 
build temporary huts, and as they can always find 
plenty of good edible roots, and are well supplied with 
beef by the chase, this mode of life is by no means 
unpleasant in that mild climate. Their method of 
cooking their meat, when upon a hunting expedi¬ 
tion, is as follows:—a hole is dug about five feet 
long, two feet wide, and three deep; this is filled 
with dry wood and set fire to : on the top of the 
fire they put large stones; when the fire is burnt 
to embers, they place sticks across to lay the beef 
on, and the stones, which by this time are red hot, 
are placed round the sides and at the bottom of 
the trench. Some more sticks are then placed across, 
