From This Time He Was
Christened "Welly," And Became The Favorite And Bully Of The Beach.
He Always Led The Dogs By Several Yards In The Chase, And Had Killed
Two Coati At Different Times In Single Combats.
We often had fine
sport with these fellows.
A quick, sharp bark from a coati, and in
an instant every dog was at the height of his speed. A few moments
made up for an unfair start, and gave each dog his relative place.
Welly, at the head, seemed almost to skim over the bushes; and after
him came Fanny, Feliciana, Childers, and the other fleet ones, -
the spaniels and terriers; and then behind, followed the heavy
corps - bulldogs, etc., for we had every breed. Pursuit by us was
in vain, and in about half an hour a few of them would come panting
and straggling back.
Beside the coati, the dogs sometimes made prizes of rabbits and
hares, which are very plentiful here, and great numbers of which
we often shot for our dinners. There was another animal that I
was not so much disposed to find amusement from, and that was the
rattlesnake. These are very abundant here, especially during the
spring of the year. The latter part of the time that I was on shore,
I did not meet with so many, but for the first two months we seldom
went into "the bush" without one of our number starting some of them.
The first that I ever saw, I remember perfectly well.
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