CHAPTER XV.
A FIRE HUNT, AND MARK'S DISAPPEARANCE.
Besides showing Mark how to catch otter and alligators, Frank taught him how to kill or capture various other wild animals.

Among other things he made plain the mysteries of fire hunting for deer, and this proved a more fascinating sport to Mark than any other.

As explained by Frank, fire hunting is hunting at night, either on foot or horseback, by means of a fire-pan.

This is an iron cage attached to the end of a light pole.

It is filled with blazing light-wood knots, and the pole is carried over the hunter's left shoulder, so that the blaze is directly behind and a little above his head.