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Sketches From My Life

CHAPTER XX
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In addition to this, it is always a great advantage when the hounds give tongue, and so warn the sportsman of the whereabouts of the game.

These hounds, called 'colpoys,' can be procured in Roumania and Hungary.

There is another description of deer found near the sea-coast in some parts of Asia Minor, which I will describe.

It is in fact the pure wild fallow deer that stocks the parks of Europe, and if I am rightly informed is only to be found wild in Asia Minor, and even there it is rare.
I understand that in India or in Africa, where there are hundreds of different sorts of deer, the real fallow is not to be found.

While shooting at a place called Camaris, near to Gallipoli, two years since, I discovered several herds of these deer, beautiful creatures, wild as hawks, and accordingly laid myself out to shoot some of them if possible.


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