CHAPTER VI .-- A PECCARY HUNT ON THE NUECES.
In the United States the peccary is only found in the southernmost corner of Texas.

In April 1892, I made a flying visit to the ranch country of this region, starting from the town of Uvalde with a Texan friend, Mr.John Moore.

My trip being very hurried, I had but a couple of days to devote to hunting.
Our first halting-place was at a ranch on the Frio; a low, wooden building, of many rooms, with open galleries between them, and verandas round about.

The country was in some respects like, in others strangely unlike, the northern plains with which I was so well acquainted.

It was for the most part covered with a scattered growth of tough, stunted mesquite trees, not dense enough to be called a forest, and yet sufficiently close to cut off the view.