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Title: Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929 Buck, Walter John
Subjects: Hunting -- Spain Game and game-birds -- Spain
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s were agreeably surprised to findanything to eat—except perhaps stewed lynx or fricas-seed flamingo—in this outer wilderness. Then, as wegathered round the blazing hearth, enjoying such coffeeand hreva cigars as are only combined in Spain, the keeperscome in with their reports—keepers of a different type toBritish ideals, Bartolo, Larrios, and Manolo, copper-skinned,pelt-clad and unkempt, andTrujillo, the cfiiarda mayor, whoenters with lordly salaam, his jacket hung on one greatshoulder as on a peg—a picture of Cervantes Quixote.These are four of the ten keepers who, from father to son,have occupied the posts on the property for generations. The intention was to devote the first few days to the smallgame of the adjacent plains, but our first operation in themorning was a deer-drive. This, however, proved blank,for, though several were seen—five stags breaking back—none, except a few hinds and one hareta, or yearlingstag, whose incipient horns (hardly longer than his ears)
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■75 o 63Q < - *. t < i A WINTER CAMPAIGN IN DONANA. 351 were not distinguished by the gun past whom he broke,came forward to the shooting hne. The writers positionwas on the crest of a sand-ridge, with only the covert ofa dead cistus bush : nothing, however, tested his powers ofconceahnent except a few partridge and a pack of stone-plovers. The sandy glen which the post commanded was,nevertheless, plentifully tracked over by deer, and threewild pigs had passed inwards into the covert that morning. After this beat, shot-cartridges were substituted forball, and for the rest of that day and several followingones caza mcnor was the order of the day. The system ofsmall-game shooting adopted on these plains combines bothwalking up and driving at the same time, and requiresa few words of description. It must be borne in mindthat we always have on one side of us—towards the northand east—the marisma, practically at this season an inlandsea, and upon this circumstance the system is

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